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Officials from the university, who had denied all accusations of favoring private school students from wealthy backgrounds, cite the statistics as proof of the university's fairness...
...under Ashcroft's skin. At times Ashcroft would leave a room when his colleagues joked around or waxed profane. Ashcroft and Thomas did share a deep knowledge of the Bible, but it didn't always bind them. Ashcroft often quoted Scripture to make a point, only to have Thomas cite a verse making precisely the opposite point...
...this episode, which they all cite today, has since had a strange way of uniting moderate Republicans behind Ashcroft. They became equally angry over what they considered a mudslinging campaign from the White House, civil rights groups and the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, Patrick Leahy, in the aftermath of the vote. "Every Republican who voted against White was branded a racist," says Republican Committee member Michael DeWine, who is proud of his civil rights record. However painful it will be to relive the White vote, it would be hard for any Republican to change his mind...
...Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment was enacted to give equal status to newly freed black slaves. Some civil rights advocates have already pointed out the irony that the conservative Justices, long reluctant to apply the law's protections to minorities, were eager to cite its protections when the victim was a wealthy white Ivy League political candidate...
...application process--which ended on Sunday--drew more applications than the group's founders expected, though they would not cite a specific figure...