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...them, if the Court had found the program unconstitutional. While Fried’s was doubtless a well-intentioned attempt to defend what he saw as an attack on constitutionally-guaranteed property rights, his case, Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, endangered legal services for the poor. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia called the IOLTA program a “Robin Hood taking”—“taking from the rich to give to indigent defendants.” But since the “rich” experience no loss, Scalia?...
...Dissent: An Unworthy Role Model
What the hydra of the dissent movement needs most desperately is a single head. But with all the Democratic presidential candidates (except Howard Dean and Al Sharpton) backing the war, political leaders are hard to come by, as are mentors from the intellectual left. "People in the antiwar movement are making a giant, historic mistake," says Paul Berman, left-leaning author of Terror and Liberalism. "The argument for the war is one of solidarity with the oppressed. These ought to be the principles of the left. The people in the antiwar movement have fallen into confusion. They should be protesting...
...armed forces, according to human-rights groups. The opposition gave President Robert Mugabe a deadline of March 31 to implement reforms or face further mass action. Ignoring worldwide condemnation of the current wave of repression, Mugabe warned that any new protests would be dealt with "severely." Down on Dissent CUBA President Fidel Castro chose a moment when the world was looking the other way to launch a roundup of dissidents opposed to his 44-year-long communist rule. Since March 18, 78 dissidents and journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed...
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