Fighting a discharge petition, the House Republican leaders have shown great ingenuity in defending our broken campaign finance system. But Senate Majority Leader Lott (R-Miss.) is reportedly ready to best this intransigence by nominating to the Federal Election Commission the James Watt of campaign finance: Bradley A. Smith, an associate law professor at Capital University Law School.
Right-wingers are dusting off the smear campaign successfully mounted against Lani Guinier for a renewed assault on Bill Lann Lee, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Leaders of the attack are not even bothering to invent new slogans. Critics are now calling Lee the “quota king.”
GRAND INQUESTS: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. By William H. Rehnquist. Morrow (currently out of print). 278 pp.
As long as there have been poor people in the United States - and that is always - state and local governments have adopted isolationist policies to keep them out. But over the last 50 years the United States Supreme Court has regularly blocked these efforts by declaring such laws unconstitutional.
Cruel and All Too Usual
The National Law Journal
June 28, 1999
Cruel and All Too Usual
By Gillian Metzger
'Thin Constitution is Light Fare'
Legal Times
June 14,1999
‘Thin Constitution is Light Fare’
By Mark Kozlowski
This Mr. Smith should not go to Washington
The Hill
June 9, 1999
This Mr. Smith should not go to Washington
By E. Joshua Rosenkranz
Fighting a discharge petition, the House Republican leaders have shown great ingenuity in defending our broken campaign finance system. But Senate Majority Leader Lott (R-Miss.) is reportedly ready to best this intransigence by nominating to the Federal Election Commission the James Watt of campaign finance: Bradley A. Smith, an associate law professor at Capital University Law School.
Donor Limits Would Pass Court Test
Glenn Moramarco defends contribution limits.
Learning from Lani
The Nation
March 22, 1999
Learning from Lani
By Deborah Goldberg
Right-wingers are dusting off the smear campaign successfully mounted against Lani Guinier for a renewed assault on Bill Lann Lee, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Leaders of the attack are not even bothering to invent new slogans. Critics are now calling Lee the “quota king.”
'Bizarre' Districts' Double Standard
Buery sets the stage for a decision in Hunt v. Cromartie.
Rehnquist's Impeachment Gavel
The Nation
January 18, 1999
Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel
By Burt Neuborne
GRAND INQUESTS: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. By William H. Rehnquist. Morrow (currently out of print). 278 pp.
Supreme Court Should Throw Out California's Cruel 'Welfare Magnet' Law
As long as there have been poor people in the United States - and that is always - state and local governments have adopted isolationist policies to keep them out. But over the last 50 years the United States Supreme Court has regularly blocked these efforts by declaring such laws unconstitutional.
GOP Census Politics
This op-ed argues that the Census Bureau’s attempt to use sampling to increase the accuracy of the 2000 census is a laudable effort.
The Few Voters Who Set the Course
The Christian Science Monitor
November 5, 1998
The Few Voters Who Set the Course
By Kenneth N. Weine
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