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The Supreme Court withstood one such Administration onslaught last week when it refused to hear a Tennessee school busing case that the Reagan Administration had hoped to use to discredit mandatory school desegregation efforts. The case involves a Nashville court-ordered busing plan for students from kindergarten through high school...
In a landmark 1971 case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's authority to mandate school busing where government policy had been shown to create segregation. But in its friend-of-the-court brief, Reagan's Justice Department argued last week that...
The Court unanimously rejected the appeal, refusing, for the moment, to backtrack on its past desegregation rulings. But the decision does not preclude further attacks on court-ordered busing plans. Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds, who heads the Justice Department civil rights division, said last week that the Court...
North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms, a gadfly of the right, thought he had finally won a congressional victory last week. Thwarted in every attempt on the Hill to advance his "social issues" agenda-banning abortion, reinstating prayer in public schools, ending the busing of students to desegregate...
Social Issues. As a candidate, Reagan heartily endorsed the New Right's agenda of banning abortion and compulsory busing and reinstituting prayer in public schools. As President he has given that agenda no more than lip service, and so the ultraconservatives have been unable to enact a single measure...