Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end White House aides had disclosed the names of nine potential successors, but several appeared to face difficulties. Hatch and Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, a conservative Democrat, are likely to run afoul of a provision in Article I of the Constitution that prevents any member of Congress from being appointed to a federal position that was voted a salary increase during that term of office. This may keep the Senators from taking court seats, since Congress approved a pay increase for Supreme Court Justices last February...
...influenced what came to be the court's general approach in employment as well as education: race-conscious goals are permissible so long as they do not become permanent, rigid quota systems. In the term just concluded, Powell cast the swing vote in upholding a promotion plan for black Alabama state troopers. But the Reagan Administration has been campaigning to abolish numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women, and Powell could be replaced by a Justice who agrees with the Administration position...
Religion. Powell took a highly eclectic approach: he voted to allow Pawtucket, R.I., to place a creche in a municipal Christmas display, but also to strike down an Alabama law authorizing a moment of silence in public schools. Justices Rehnquist, Byron White and Antonin Scalia want to go further than Powell ever would in approving state practices that foster religion, and O'Connor would like to rewrite the court's standard test for deciding when such practices are constitutional. Powell's successor might make a majority...
...this crowd, Travis is the proud traditionalist. He has not redefined country so much as reminded everyone of its truest instincts. "I don't like to hear a country singer doing crossover," he admits. "Young people started turning their radios to hear Alabama and Kenny Rogers, and they began to hear George Strait and Ricky Skaggs." It is not necessary to press Travis' good country manners by asking his candid opinion of Rogers. The performers who command his respect can be heard in the echoes his music stirs: Strait and Skaggs and, especially, George Jones, and, reaching further back...
...which I will inherit one-twentieth someday. It is land whose history is that of a great grandfather who played on the LSU football team that beat Yale and went on to win the national championship around Quentin's era at Harvard and of a grandfather who walked from Alabama to Texas because there were free schoolbooks in Texas...