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Seán Ó Murchu

William Brennan

Champion of Justice

By Seán Ó Murchu, Contributor
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

During his 34 years with the Supreme Court, Justice William Brennan, Jr. (1906 - 1998) was widely recognized as one of the primary architects of public policy in the country. ℘℘℘ On his childhood in Newark, N.J.: I had every kind of job in the world. Across the street from us was a dairy farm, and my brother Charlie, at five in the morning, would milk the cows, and by the … [Read more...] about William Brennan

Champion of Justice

Sean Minihane

Immigrant Defender

By Seán Ó Murchu, Contributor
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

In the late '80s and early '90s the Irish Immigration Reform Movement (I.I.R.M.) was a powerful lobbying group for Irish immigrants, working to change U.S. immigration law to provide equal access to all immigrants and to legalize the thousands of illegal Irish immigrants who were in the country already. The following excerpt is from an interview with Sean Minihane, then … [Read more...] about Sean Minihane

Immigrant Defender

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