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.
The case of Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 97-1252, to be argued before the Supreme Court Nov. 4, reviews whether an individual deserves prompt judicial review when asserting a First Amendment defense in response to the government’s prosecution. Its not a high-profile case, but the principle at stake is constitutional bedrock, and the case requires the court to fulfill its critical, if not always popular, role in our tripartite democracy.
Senate majority leader Trent Lott has established a new rule for the federal judicial selection process. There can be one, and only one, Hispanic woman on the United States Courts of Appeals. Since there is already one such judge (Rosemary Barkett, on the 11th Circuit), other Hispanic women can serve on trial courts, but the appellate courts are officially off limits.
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
Turnouts Low? Hold a Lottery
The Boston Globe
November 3, 1998
Turnouts Low? Hold a Lottery
By Glenn J. Moramarco
Palestinian Case Skirts Free-Speech Protection
The case of Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 97-1252, to be argued before the Supreme Court Nov. 4, reviews whether an individual deserves prompt judicial review when asserting a First Amendment defense in response to the government’s prosecution. Its not a high-profile case, but the principle at stake is constitutional bedrock, and the case requires the court to fulfill its critical, if not always popular, role in our tripartite democracy.
Lott's Hispanic Quota
The Nation
October 5, 1998
Lott’s Hispanic Quota
By Deborah Goldberg
Senate majority leader Trent Lott has established a new rule for the federal judicial selection process. There can be one, and only one, Hispanic woman on the United States Courts of Appeals. Since there is already one such judge (Rosemary Barkett, on the 11th Circuit), other Hispanic women can serve on trial courts, but the appellate courts are officially off limits.
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