Word: chema
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...against inequality. "This case may encourage unwarranted defiance of judicial authority in civil rights matters," observed Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe. Added ) Cornell University law professor Steven Shiffrin: "There is no place for deference to the legislative process when it does not act in good faith." But Peter Chema, one of the targeted Yonkers council members, was jubilant. "This is a democracy," he declared, "and an elected official's vote is sacred...
...weeks, four of the council's seven members had held out against the court-ordered plan, but increasing voter complaints as well as the threat of massive firings and eventual bankruptcy finally forced two councilmen, Nicholas Longo and Peter Chema, to back down. "I knew many of those people who would have been terminated," said Longo. "I'd been to their weddings, the baptisms of their children." This week the council members will present recommendations to the court that they hope will make the housing plan more palatable to its opponents. Said Longo of the ordeal that ultimately cost Yonkers...
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