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Race. Burger has a mixed record on racial-discrimination cases. He has voted both for and against affirmative action and busing, depending on the circumstances. Significantly, however, he wrote the majority opinion in Fullilove vs. Klutznick, a 1979 case explicitly upholding the use of quotas to set aside 10% of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses under a public-works act passed by Congress. Supreme Court Expert Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute suggests that Scalia would not "cotton to" such a decision and predicts a "move to a more color-blind jurisprudence." In a 1979 article...
...Klutznick criticized the emphasis that many policy-makers have placed on the nation's budget concerns, saying that often government funds can be used productively to improve competitiveness...
Roth agreed with Klutznick's belief that the solution to the United States' competitive difficulties was a change in attitude from its present lack of confidence and the inability to cooperate and make decisions effectively...
...nation has advantages that no other can match--in its territory, its population, and resources--all of which should be applied to help industries to compete in foreign markets as well as at home, Klutznick added...
...Klutznick responded that the large number of lawyers in American society signified an important problem, the necessity for adversarial relations...