Epstein Secrets

e.... I invite you to be inspired.... I invite you to dream the impossible.... I invite you to believe in tomorrow.... One of my all-time heroes is Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908— January 24, 1993) who was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Mars

w degree from Howard University (magna cum laude) and begins private practice in Baltimore, Maryland. 1934 — Begins to work for Baltimore branch of NAACP. 1935 — Working with Charles Houston, wins first major civil rights case, Murray v. Pearson. 1936 — Becomes assistant special counsel for NAACP in

the court pronounced that a civilized society cannot condone the execution of a person with so weak a grasp on reality that killing him, as Justice Thurgood Marshall concluded for the majority, "has questionable retributive value, presents no example to others, and thus has no deterrence value, and simply offends

termine whether someone is sane enough to be killed. In fact, were it not for the persuasive powers of Marshall, who had handled capital cases as an NAACP lawyer, the court wouldn't have even taken the Ford case — let alone cast five votes in the petitioner's favor. But Marshall couldn't convince the

his weekly company softball game until his late 80s). His frequent guests, in addition to Judge Bazelon, included Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and William Douglas, Judges J. Skelly Wright, Senators Abe Ribacoff and Jacob Javits and many other judicial and political notables.

rights projects. During law school I also developed interests in civil rights, especially with regard to desegregation. In college I had joined the NAACP and had participated in a bus protest to Washington. In my second summer at law school I went to Howard University in Washington 44 HOUSE_OVERSIGH