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...Predictably, the Bush Administration agrees. In a friend of the court brief supporting the Kentucky petitioners, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement wrote, "The United States remains deeply committed to [the] objective [of Brown vs. Board of Education]. But once the effects of past de jure segregation have been remedied, the path forward does not involve new instances of de jure discrimination...
...book becomes far more enjoyable when Fried starts to discuss our modern government, drawing on his years of government experience, first as solicitor general and later as a justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
...Director Robert Mueller made clear that they would not comply with any presidential order to return the seized materials--and were willing to risk being fired for their defiance, says a law-enforcement source. So the President instead ordered the FBI to hand over the documents to the Solicitor General's office, which is not involved in the probe. The documents will be sealed for 45 days while Congress and the Administration seek agreement on what prosecutors may view...
...crucial fact that Schuker fails to mention is that I was innocent of that politically motivated charge and was so found after a thorough investigation, which I requested. Several distinguished individuals who examined the accusations—including former Dartmouth President James O. Freedman, former Solicitor General Charles Fried, and the head of the Harvard Law School library Harry S. Martin ’65—also dismissed them as baseless...
...receiving federal funds must grant the military “equal access” to students, but it does not define “equal access.”In oral arguments before the court in December, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy asked the government’s top lawyer, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, if at, “say, a job fair...the school organizes a line jeering both the recruiters and the applicants, that’s ‘equal access?’” Clement responded, “I think that would...