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Rehnquist was one of two dissenters (the other: Byron White) from Roe vs. Wade, the court's 1973 decision creating a constitutional right to abortion, and he has repeatedly dissented from court decisions banning prayer in schools. Court decisions upholding affirmative action have regularly drawn his scornful dissents. "There is...
Race. Burger has a mixed record on racial-discrimination cases. He has voted both for and against affirmative action and busing, depending on the circumstances. Significantly, however, he wrote the majority opinion in Fullilove vs. Klutznick, a 1979 case explicitly upholding the use of quotas to set aside 10% of...
Fiedler, 49, rose to prominence as an outspoken opponent of school busing. She bills herself as the candidate most loyal to President Reagan and hammers away at Zschau's anti-Administration stands on such issues as the MX missile and aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua (though Zschau has...
The charge that he is a turncoat particularly rankles Leiken, who still considers himself a member of the left. His credentials are impeccable. In the . 1960s he joined the ban-the-Bomb movement and agitated against the Viet Nam War. In 1975, briefly interrupting an eight-year period of work...
Hillson sparked a shouting match at a candidates' forum last month when he accused O'Neil of encouraging "racist mobs" during the busing crisis. Yesterday he said he had "enjoyed taking Councilor O'Neil on," and called the departing candidate a "racist" and a "buffoon."