Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THEN: White House counsel...
Ginsburg became a judge back in 1980, appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, after she gained national acclaim as counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. She had won five landmark cases before the Supreme Court and had taken a novel approach to expanding the scope of the equal-protection clause by suing on behalf of men in some cases. She argued, for instance, that widowers as well as widows were entitled to Social Security survivor payments and challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also...
...General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall is currently investigating charges made by several security guards that their bosses are discriminatory. The guard who allegedly broke into the police cruiser is not one of those charging discrimination...
...serious consideration," says Rose, who realizes, just as Reno does, that a full-scale investigation could send shock waves through Washington and corporate suites. That hasn't deterred Jack Brooks, who has already introduced a bill -- his first of the new Administration -- to renew the office of special counsel. If Reno doesn't move, its first task may be to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the BNL case. "This affair is not over; there is much more to learn," Rose said in introducing Gasior last week. "I hope the ultimate truth will be put on the table...
...Clinton Administration has developed a new list of candidates to head up the Justice Department's civil rights division. Among them are Lynn Walker, director of human-rights and social-justice programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated for an Administration...