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AMERICA'S long overdue show-down over the future of civil rights may come within weeks as Congress prepares to send President Bush a flawed and cynical bill whose chief connection to civil rights lies in its eye-catching (and vote-winning) title. Bush should pronounce that legislation dead on arrival and use the opportunity to launch a new civil rights agenda that emphasizes empowerment--not handouts...
Club members gathered 1756 signatures in front of Widener library yesterday, hopping to convince Souter to vote pro-choice on abortion cases, said Steve W. Howe '93, the Democrats' political director...
Souter, President Bush's nominee to replace William Brennan on the high court, faces a confirmation vote by the full Senate next Tuesday. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nominee yesterday despite his refusal to state his views on abortion. [See news story, page...
PATRICIA Jones' vote may have counted as much as that of every other citizen of the District, but her health did not. In a society that distributes life-prolonging care on an ability-to-pay basis, we have, in essence, decided that some people deserve to live more than others...
THINK of it this way. No Senator would vote to confirm a judge who would overturn Brown v. Board of Education, the decision that ended school segregation. Few Senators would support a nominee who questioned Griswold v. Connecticut (which established the right to privacy) even though intellectually competent people and cogent legal arguments can be found to oppose it. Some political ends are so important to Americans that we cannot allow a Court appointee to jeopardize them...