Lewis Powell, Harry Blackmun, and John Paul Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.
Lewis Powell
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The Blueprint for Corporate Power Turns 50
Before he was a Supreme Court Justice, Lewis Powell was a Richmond, Virginia lawyer fearful that “revolutionaries” were destroying capitalism. His 1971 memo is a reminder of a time when Ralph Nader scared Big Business witless.
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The Course to Chaos
When, precisely, did the Republican Party “snap”? The exact moment when the GOP went rabid will be debated for decades: you may recall that last year, I argued that the point of no return for the Republican Party was August 1, 1988–the day Rush Limbaugh’s Sacramento, California-based right-wing talk show was nationally syndicated for the […]
