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Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger, a Brazilian by birth, left Cambridge for Brasilia last week to enter the famously rough-and-tumble world of Brazilian politics. Unger officially assumed the title of Secretary of Long Term Planning last Tuesday...
Think about the issues in which the center of the court, defined by Kennedy, is now more conservative than it was with O'Connor. The federal ban on partial-birth abortion? Polls consistently show overwhelming support for it. Affirmative action? After the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative-action plan in 2003, Michigan voters repudiated it in a referendum. "Any court on which Justice Kennedy is the median voter will never do anything to provoke dramatic backlashes," says Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, "because Justice Kennedy has his finger...
...striking down environmental laws like the Clean Air Act, national majorities might well become energized and alarmed. Although Justice Clarence Thomas has signaled his willingness to overturn Roe and gut the heart of the regulatory state, Kennedy is unlikely to provide a fifth vote for either. In the partial-birth case, he repeated his longstanding view that although late-term abortions could be restricted, the early-term abortions at the core of Roe had to be protected. And he made clear his support for environmental regulations when he joined the court's four liberals in holding that the Bush Environmental...
...fight with the court in the short term, in hopes of prompting a leftward shift, they'll have to be careful to choose issues in which they can count on support from a significant majority of the country. Rather than try to repeal the popular ban on partial-birth abortion--which many Democratic voters support--they might try instead to protect gender equality by overturning the court's narrow interpretation of the federal law prohibiting pay discrimination...
After winning a third term in a 2000 election that was marred by allegations of ballot rigging, Fujimori abruptly fled for Japan and resigned his office - by fax. The new Peruvian government demanded his extradition, but Tokyo refused. Fujimori's parents had supposedly registered his birth with the Japanese embassy in Lima, which meant he remained a Japanese citizen, and therefore safe from extradition. Fujimori lived in his parents' homeland under the patronage of conservative Japanese politicians until 2005, when he made a surprise trip back to South America in preparation for a political comeback in Peru - only...