Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointment, fraught with symbolism, has thus far proved to be disappointing. There have been some modest accomplishments. Under Reno, the Justice Department has liberalized the release of information under the Freedom Of Information Act. She supported legislation which made it a felony to obstruct access to an abortion clinic...
That's a racket. Now, instead of a five-and-ten, picture an abortion clinic. And while you're at it, how about a miraculous conversion: turn the hoodlums into militant Christians, whose only payoff is in heaven. They still threaten violence, but not for money. That's a racket...
...suit failed at the district court level and on appeal: the seventh circuit, while noting that clinic violence was "reprehensible," refused to let Clayton try to prove that the defendants had committed it. The reasoning: a criminal "enterprise" must be dedicated to economic gain. Last week, however, Rehnquist disagreed. "We do not think this is so," he wrote simply. And "nowhere in ((RICO)) is there any indication that an economic motive is required...
...damages on grounds of his own poverty -- "you can't get blood from a turnip" -- and then reels off a couple of nonviolent schemes that might sidestep RICO. Spilling cranberry juice on white snow to simulate fetal blood might have impact, he suggests; as would abandoning old cars in clinic driveways as a "vehicle...
...connection with the defendants. She claims abundant evidence to this effect. For his part, Blakey brandishes a letter from the explosives chief at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stating that "there is no indication that any particular group has acted in unison on the abortion clinic arsons and bombings." Moreover, he claims that RICO was never intended to apply to political protest in the first place...