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White was recommended by the committee in July, over Ashcroft's objections, and a vilification campaign against White soon began in earnest. White, said Ashcroft, was a "judicial activist," one of that horrible breed of tyrants with gavels who try to re-write the law for their own purposes instead of interpreting it justly. As evidence, Ashcroft lambasted White for having voted 14 times to reverse a death penalty decision, proving that he was a protector of the guilty and against law and order. One Ashcroft fundraiser resigned in protest of the "marathon public crucifixion and misinformation campaign...
...visit, Carnahan has been doing all he can to look tough--as one aide told the Washington Post, "Mel's been stacking up bodies right and left"--but the death penalty is still a sore spot in his campaign. So when Ashcroft described Judge White as "pro-criminal and activist" on the Senate floor, he was making a perfect political maneuver. Yet as Ashcroft surely knew, the description didn't quite match...
Almost any anti-sweatshop activist can tell you that it is essential for companies to disclose their factory locations if there is to be any success at all in improving working conditions from Honduras to Timbuktu...
...Championing a deal opposed by labor could cost Gore heavily in one of the Democratic party's key activist constituencies, but free trade remains a cornerstone of the vice president's politics. Much may hinge, then, on how Bill Bradley responds to the same issue. Buoyed by an endorsement from former Clinton administration labor secretary Robert Reich Monday, Bradley is well-placed to outflank Gore from the party's left. But the former New Jersey senator's own voting record is also solidly pro-free trade, and although he gave the agreement a qualified welcome Monday, opposing it would...
...that on any given morning, a President may have to wrestle with Mexico, Medicaid and Microsoft. Reagan could afford to be more full of principle than policy detail because his whole view of government was that it should do as little as possible; a candidate like Bush, with an activist agenda, is bidding for a job that comes with much more homework...