Word: racially
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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BUSH: That I'm not sensitive to racial issues. You know, it may be because I'm from Texas. It may be because I've got Republican by my name. Certainly, it isn't what I think...
...sizable number of critics, from law professors to some of the court's own members, have attacked the ruling as antidemocratic and politically motivated. Many say they were pained to see a court that once distinguished itself by removing barriers to voting--including racial prohibitions, poll taxes and literacy tests--stand in the way of counting valid votes. And Justice John Paul Stevens spoke for disillusioned observers everywhere when he declared in dissent that the decision to stop the vote count and declare Bush the winner "can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges...
There's always considerable pressure on the Supreme Court, in very important cases, to rise above--or at least appear to rise above--political divisions. In Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case striking down racial segregation in public schools, Chief Justice Earl Warren worked mightily behind the scenes to extract a unanimous decision. When the Supreme Court first heard the Florida election dispute, it issued a ruling in a 9-0 vote vacating the Florida Supreme Court's first decision and directed the Florida justices to provide a clearer explanation for their reasoning. And when the Justices took...
...Whitman are next, it would appear that Bush has soothed all beasts thus far by making his diversity acceptable to his right flank. Right? But ah, the left - there are scattered reports that Senate Democrats will subject Whitman to a hot roasting over her gross ham-handedness with racial profiling in New Jersey. We might even get to see the picture of her frisking the innocent black motorist - and grinning...
...Jackson stays relevant on both sides of the racial divide by means of showmanship and what might be called amphibious opportunism. He intrudes himself into every crisis and photo op with the aggressive agility of a pro football lineman; he mediates, he bloviates, he aggrandizes himself, and occasionally, I suppose, he performs a useful function. That is the legitimacy of his hustle...