Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Wexler and Evelyn Cunningham, co-chairman of the national Women for Anderson committee, sharply criticized Governor Reagan's recent effort to attract women voters by pledging to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court...
...suggest that a Reagan presidency would be equivalent to four more years of Carter is ludicrous. Where Carter has appointed more women, Blacks and Hispanics to the federal judiciary than all previous presidents combined, Reagan's record shows a complete lack of concern for such groups. Where Carter successfully pushed for extension of the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment, Reagan opposes the ERA. Where Carter undoubtedly would appoint justices who will safeguard civil liberties, Reagan and the platform he runs on state that nominees for the Supreme Court would be screened for their opposition to abortion; we pale...
...thought that Reagan may appoint a third of the Supreme Court if he is elected frightens those who understand the fragility of our Constitution. Should his court nominees share his views, the fundamental document of our society will soon come to reflect the paternalism, the prejudice and the morality of convenience that has marked the campaign of the former California governor...
What the C.I.J. fears, explains Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is the molding of a judiciary with "a monolithic right-wing ideology." It is true that Reagan has made it clear that he would appoint strict constructionists who believe in judicial restraint. But such philosophical criteria are nothing new. Presidents have tried to pick judges who read the Constitution their way since George Washington, who insisted on Federalists for his Supreme Court. President Carter, if reelected, would be no exception. Former Attorney General Griffin Bell says Carter would opt for Supreme Court candidates...
...policy as well; it was central in a fight that eventually led to a woman's execution for witchcraft in 1650, a woman one historian called "one of the earliest victims to that dreadful popular delusion." As late as 1696, the selectmen of the city felt it necessary to appoint a committee of four to "have inspection into families that there be no bye drinking or any misdemeanor whereby sin is committed and persons from their houses unseasonably...