Letters: Oct. 29, 1984

Court Arguments

To the Editors:

Supreme Court Justices [NATION, Oct. 8] are not appointed to further any private political view. Rather, the duty of the high court is to uphold the laws of this country and, as you say, "develop a higher loyalty" than mere politics. That distinction is the reason this nation has been able to remain a democracy.

Barbara Shaloo

Tinton Falls, N.J.

I am relieved that we have a chance to be rid of the proabortion, procriminal, propornography Supreme Court whose decisions have done so much damage in the past quarter-century.

Donald L. Moore

Bellwood, Ill.

You state, "No matter how conservative it becomes,...

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