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Currently, the GOP has a 54-46 majority in the Senate, but this majority rests on tenuous ground. Under any scenario, the Democrats need a net gain of five seats to take control of the Senate.
The issue of character, although not always explicit, has hung gloomily over this election since the last days of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. At that time, some held that private sins, once admitted, could be forgiven and swept under the rug as "youthful indiscretions" irrelevant to one...
At the tail end of a campaign season full of drastic warnings from several candidates on what is at stake in this election for the Supreme Court, New Republic editor Jeffrey M. Rosen '86 told an audience at the ARCO Forum that Republican warnings against an "activist" court under Al...
To illustrate how Republican appointees have tended to limit federal jurisdiction over the states, Rosen discussed decisions made under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. These rulings, which involved a narrow construction of the Interstate Commerce Clause, included overturning the Violence Against Women Act and limiting Food and Drug Administration regulation...
Rosen ended with a final endorsement of Gore in response to a question on whether he expected the court to make a major decision on gay rights under the next administration.