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Patrick, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights during the Clinton administration...
While Patrick has never held an elected political office before, he has made a name for himself as a prominent civil rights attorney, working closely with the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund...
...partisan bitterness. The nuclear option reared its ugly head when special interest groups began distributing lists targeting nominees as good candidates for blocking—lists which were heavy on sensational allegations and light on reasoned critiques. Bill Pryor was accused of racism despite his record of fighting for civil rights, while others were blocked because they did not pass the litmus test on abortion. If the GOP fails in its attempt to “go nuclear,” one can only imagine the obstruction techniques it will use when it is once again in the minority...
...society now evolves at an unprecedented rate, and it is simply pretentious to believe that anyone’s idea is automatically “right” without hearing the other side, regardless of how ridiculous that other side may seem. Virtually all ideas, including civil rights, gender equality, and sexual preference equality, were once the minority opinion. The solution is not to suppress an opinion, but rather to address it directly and on its merits. I still hold out hope that American society will be able to see both sides of any issue and make its own educated...
...must redouble efforts to improve nuclear-reactor protections against accidents and terrorism, to appropriately manage radioactive wastes, and to preclude misuse of civil nuclear energy for making nuclear weapons, in order to see whether a large expansion of this further carbon dioxide-free energy source can be made practical...