The Nation - News from May 8, 1987

Republican presidential hopeful Pat Robertson said that Americans would be better off if liberal Supreme Court justices Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan Jr. and John Paul Stevens were either retired or dead. Robertson made his remarks to Republican members of the North Carolina Legislature. “We have many social concerns in this country,” Robertson said. “Most of those social concerns would be solved if (they) were to be either retired or to be promoted to that great courtroom in the sky.”