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PLAN: Appoint Justices (there will probably be two or more openings in the next four years) like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas who look to the intent of the Founding Fathers when interpreting the Constitution...
...years, our nation has substantially cleaned up our air and water--thanks to citizen enforcement lawsuits, tough federal laws that regulate interstate pollution and the ability of Congress and executive agencies to employ modern, innovative solutions to environmental problems as our society grows more complicated. However, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia has been leading an effort on the Supreme Court to revive obscure legal doctrines that restrict the ability of the government and citizens to protect our environment. If the next President appoints more Justices in the mold of Justice Scalia, our environmental standards are at grave risk...
...more interesting approach can be found in some of theater's most famous theoretical literature. French playwright and critic Antonin Artaud argues in his seminal work The Theater and its Double that the theater has too long been dominated by text, the director has too long been slave to the author. Theater is not literature, he argues, and it should not pay undue homage to the authority of written words. Theater is a unique set of experiences based fundamentally in space rather than letters. As such it has a visual language all its own, a language which cannot be notated...
...public school fails to meet standards after three years, he would cut off its federal funds and turn the money over to parents in the form of vouchers, allowing them to send their kids to private school. He satisfies the right by praising conservative Supreme Court stalwarts Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas but sticks by his pledge not to use a pro-life "litmus test" in picking court nominees. And even as he promises tax cuts, a G.O.P. staple, he swears he will work hard to close the gap between society's "haves and have-nots...
...liberties and preventing undue searches). Unless they can invoke a special circumstance, such as a mental disability, kids often have thin grounds on which to base a defense against school punishment. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has eroded student protections granted in the 1960s. In 1995 Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a caustic decision allowing drug testing of students. "Minors," he said, "lack some of the most fundamental rights of self-determination--including even the right of liberty in its narrow sense, i.e., the right to come and go at will." The ruling was widely seen to give administrators...