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Much to the dismay of the cadres of social conservatives and Moral Majoritarians who helped elect Ronald Reagan, the Administration insisted last year that the most prickly proposals on the New Right agenda, such as outlawing abortion and banning busing as a tool to desegregate schools, be put off while...
Congress begins work on busing, abortion and school prayer
School busing is the first issue to come up and the one most likely to be resolved to the liking of the New Right. The Senate last week approved, by a 58 to 38 vote, an amendment to a Justice Department funding bill. It would prohibit federal judges from ordering...
All three of these issues, if passed into legislation, are likely to provoke a direct confrontation with the courts. First, many of the bills attempt to circumvent or overturn rulings of the Supreme Court, such as its opinion, delivered in 1973, that laws flatly prohibiting abortions during the first six...
At the very least, busing should remain a potential remedy for judges, as advised by local school boards and officials. Certainly Congress can recommend to the courts that they use busing only as a last resort in desegregation cases. But as legal analysts like Archibald Cox, Loeb Professor of Law...