Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...context and past judicial decisions when ruling on the meaning of a Constitutional passage, said Paul Brest, professor of clinical legal education at Stanford. Otherwise, the judge would be ignoring "the moderating forces of evolution" that acted on the original text. For example, the forces of time caused the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to protect all minorities and women instead of just Blacks, said Brest...
...been involved with public service," boasts Thomas, who has also opted to follow that calling. Since graduating from the Kennedy School of Government in 1975, he has worked for the Dukakis administration and for civil rights activist Eleanor Holmes Norton. Most recently, he resigned from the New England Equal Opportunity Commission, a government oversight agency on civil rights. "I could not carry out my oath," Thomas says, because of the Reagan Administration policy that seeks curbs on affirmative action programs...
...opposed fair and equal treatment of minorities at every turn: in the legislature (where he opposed local public accommodations laws), at the polls (where he sought to block blacks and Hispanics from voting), and in his personal dealings (where he accepted racial and religious restrictive covenants on his real estate holdings)," the report said...
...memo defended the 1896 court decision accepting "separate but equal" facilities for Blacks. Rehnquist told the Senate that it represented the views of Jackson...
...Apparently [the selection] was done clandestinely," said Rebekah L. Causey '88-'89, who is here working dorm crew for the 350th. "They should have given all the students an equal chance...