He was working for the people of the United States.
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When you put the memo together with his voting registration challenges and with his opposition to a local antidiscrimination ordinance in Phoenix, ... you get a picture of somebody for whom issues of racial justice and nondiscrimination were not a high priority.
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Still, the Supreme Court is another kind of universe. If there were an ad for the job, it would be, 'Inside work, no heavy lifting,' ... The justices hear only the cases they want to hear, write only what they want to write. It's great.
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The Supreme Court has said Congress does have the power to create new legal interests -- to confer standing on people who otherwise wouldn't have it,
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I don't think his fundamental views changed over the roughly 30 years he was on the court.
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