Word: campaigners
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After a furious lobbying campaign, White was rejected by the full Senate in October on a party-line vote. Bond decided to vote with his fellow Republicans against the judge he had earlier called "a man of the highest integrity and honor," as did presidential candidate and Judiciary chairman Orrin G. Hatch, who had previously called White "a fine...
However, the spurious charge of racism obscures a greater threat. Ashcroft began his campaign against White by arguing that he had voted to overturn a death penalty 14 times. Later, the tactics became more sophisticated, and White's votes were compared to others on the court (some of whom, Ashcroft appointees, had voted against more death penalties than he), but the count-the-numbers approach betrays a cynical assumption that any vote to reverse the death penalty is suspect, that the courts should rubber-stamp death sentences instead of conducting meaningful review...
Ashcroft's campaign against Judge White-- and whatever success it may bring to his campaign against Carnahan in 2000--sends the message to all state judges that if they want to get on the federal bench, they'd better start upholding some death penalties. When a case is hard, as Judge White found Missouri v. Johnson, and when the defendant's right to a new trial is unclear, how will those judges decide? The perverse political incentives make it seem inevitable that a defendant who may not deserve the death penalty will some day receive it because the judges...
Alex J. Leary '01, who serves as a Harvard liaison for VarsityBooks.com and directed their on-campus marketing campaign during shopping period, doesn't believe anyone is misled by the advertisements...
...trade deal may leave labor, it's unlikely to change the voting preferences of those who wouldn't contemplate deserting the big parties for anti-free trade insurgent Pat Buchanan. But Gore needs more than just a grudging vote from labor: He needs its money spent on campaign ads endorsing his positions and its grassroots activists getting out the vote. If labor chooses to fight hard against the China deal, its enthusiasm for Gore is likely to be muted...