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Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland contends that the naysayers have misinterpreted his boss, who only meant to stress that those who believe a decision is wrong may seek out legitimate ways to overturn it. Eastland points to the example of civil rights groups, which for years submitted briefs to the court urging the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding segregation. Meese has made clear that he believes issues such as abortion and the rights of the accused remain similarly unsettled...
...Reagan Administration, the battle is likely to intensify. "Sometime in the 1930s we recognized that the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the Constitution," says Columbia University Law Professor Louis Henkin. "Mr. Meese is trying to change the system % accepted by the American people." But times change, counters Eastland, and so does the court majority. "We're in a constitutional era where decision after decision is very close. It is a period of considerable ferment." Ferment indeed. "Mr. Meese must sit up nights thinking 'I haven't provoked the legal profession in recent weeks,' " says University of Michigan...
...Reagan Administration could, and did, take satisfaction from the majority's view that the mere fact of discrimination in American life is not in itself a constitutionally sufficient reason for resorting to an affirmative-action remedy. "It is a terrific opinion in our judgment," said Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland. But after reviewing the splintered opinions, most experts agreed with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She concluded that the Justices have "forged a degree of unanimity" on a key rebuff to a much bruited claim of the Reagan Administration. It has argued that affirmative action is appropriate only to remedy...
...SURPRISINGLY, Meese's attack on the courts represents one punch in the administration's two fisted attack on civil liberties and broad guarantees of rights. In an article in The New York Times, Justice Department public relations man Terry Eastland unintentionally elucidated the real intentions of Meese and the Reagan Administration...
According to Eastland, the framers of the Constitution and the 14th Amendment did not "contemplate sexual equality." Thus, courts should refrain from extending equal rights to women. Reagan, however, in his repeated attacks on the Equal Rights Amendment, has claimed that the ERA is redundant...