Sunday, September 23, 2001

• Publication year: 2001
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• Citation: Vol. 30 No. 8 Pg. 29

30 Colo.Law. 29 Colorado Lawyer 2001.

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Vol. 30, No. 8, Pg. 29

The Colorado Lawyer
August 2001
Vol. 30, No. 8 [Page 29]

Features
CBA 103rd ANNUAL INSTITUTE
Sunday, September 23, 2001

8:30-9:00

Continental Breakfast

Graham Thatcher,
Sunday, Sept. 23,
featured speaker
9:00-12:00 "Impeach Justice Douglas"

Part I - When Justice William O. Douglas retired from the United States Supreme Court in 1975, he had served for thirty-six years, longer than any other justice in history and had helped to decide some of the most important cases in the nation's history. He was an inveterate traveler prolific writer, and popular speaker, who used his position to espouse his controversial ideas on environmentalism and the Bill of Rights. His public visibility and open criticism won him friends in some places and more than a few enemies in the Congress and the White House, some of whom actively though unsuccessfully, sought his impeachment. This presentation, which is an expanded version of last year's luncheon program, features Mr. Graham Thatcher in an engaging solo performance that uses anecdote, humor and painful remembrances to explore some of the most explosive issues of William O. Douglas' tenure on the Supreme Court. He wrestles with balancing "wilderness mind" with the often hostile adversarial conflicts created by his controversial opinions and his active public life. Extolling the virtues and berating the weaknesses of "the brethren" on the Court, he passionately addresses the issues of race, freedom of speech and the rights of the individual. William O. Douglas' legacy is a call for...