Word: courting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Focusing on recent Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, Director of Boston Lawyers for Civil Rights Alan J. Rom, told the audience of 35 people that the United States could only effectively address civil rights issues if it had the will, which, he said, it currently does...
Acknowledging the Court's--and the nation's--professed desire to do something about civil rights, Rom noted the lack of action. "We've had the will to say it, but not really to do it," he said...
Specifically criticizing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Rom credited former President Ronald W. Reagan with thoroughly investigating his Supreme Court nominiations, making sure that they would vote the way he wished them...
...discussed the Court's recent rulings on civil rights issues, saying that particularly after the Court's ruling in Martin v. Wilks, advances that had been made years ago could be contested by "strangers to the [original] proceedings...
Describing how white firefighters in Birmingham, Alabama had challenged an old consent decree of which they had not been a part, Rom concluded that the Court's ruling meant that now "anything is fair game...