Griswold

[griz-wawld, -wuhld]

noun

1. Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.

2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

“In this critical moment in our country, we don’t need to be polite, go along to get along, establishment politicians that keep getting run over by the opposition,” wrote Peter Finn and Chris Griswold, co-chairs of Teamsters California, which has endorsed Porter and represents 250,000 workers in the state.

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Or consider Justice Kennedy’s assertion, earlier in the book, that Scalia “knew” Griswold—the 1965 case creating a constitutional right to contraception and launching an entire era of judicial constitutional creativity—“was right.”

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That seems odd: Scalia’s entire judicial career, promoting originalism and textualism for constraining judicial activism, stands in opposition to the judicial mindset pioneered in Griswold.

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In a 2012 interview, when Fox News’s Chris Wallace pointed out that “in the Griswold case the court said there was” a right to privacy, Scalia shot back, “indeed, it did, and that was wrong.”

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“Specifically, we have a Dawn Redwood that we’re going to be talking about a bit,” says Claire Griswold, the garden’s learning and engagement manager.

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