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Famed liberal judge and former Congress member Abner Mikva urged an audience of about 175 people to “bring justice back to law” by vigorously resisting the prevailing conservative influence at law schools across the country...
...What’s missing is a counter force to make our democracy run like it should,” Mikva said...
...debate surrounding issues like privacy, free speech, racial and religious profiling, and abortion are too often shaped by conservatives, Mikva said. “The dominant forum for discussing these issues at law school campuses is now run by a group with a staunch conservative agenda...
...Mikva said, will prove “that rigorous legal thinking is consistent with liberal values...
...President was understandably silent about all this, but his surrogates treated the news like a hanging curve ball. "A salacious witch-hunt," cried former White House counsels Abner Mikva and Jack Quinn, demanding that Starr either abandon this avenue of inquiry or resign. Pumped with rage and delight, adviser James Carville recited a litany of Whitewater inquiries: "The RTC report, the FDIC report, the Gonzales hearings, the Leach hearings, the D'Amato hearings, the Fiske special prosecutorship, the Starr special prosecutorship--and you know where we are? Into some troopers trying to talk to some women. [The investigation...