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Authors ›› Marshall Pages: ‹1› ‹2› ‹3› ‹4› Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association (1989) JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting: The issue in this case is not whether declaring a war on illegal drugs is good public policy. The importance of ridding our society of such drugs is, by now, apparent to all. [...] Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association (1989) JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting: Precisely because the need for action against the drug scourge is manifest, the need for vigilance against unconstitutional excess is great. History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. [...] Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association (1989) JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting: These flaws [of the testing program] cast grave doubts on whether that program, though born of good intentions, will do more than ineffectually symbolize the Government's opposition to drug use. [...] Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association (1989) JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting: The majority's acceptance of dragnet blood and urine testing ensures that the first, and worst, casualty of the war on drugs will be the precious liberties of our citizens. [...] Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association (1989) JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting: The majority's concern with the railroad safety problems caused by drug and alcohol abuse is laudable; its cavalier disregard for the text of the Constitution is not. There is no drug exception to the Constitution, any more than there is a communism exception or an exception for other real or imagined sources of domestic unrest. [...] Pages: ‹1› ‹2› ‹3› ‹4›

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