Word: guinier
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...Tyranny of the Majority by Lana Guinier The free Press...
...acceptance of the South African presidency (and F.W. de Klerk's concession of the same position) provide a sharp contrast with the hopeless inadequacy of minority political representation in the United States. It is this second argument which is pointed out powerfully by the recent publication of Lani Guinier '71's collection of articles,The Tyranny of the Majority...
...effect, the same point which was made rather less precisely and logically by the furor over Guinier's nomination to the position of assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division in the Clinton Administration early in 1993. The characterization of her work as "profoundly anti-democratic" and of Guinier herself as a "Quota Queen" by the press, which led eventually to the President's withdrawl of her nomination, can itself be read as a signal of a "national discomfort with the brute facts of racial injustice." At least, this is the interpretation placed on last year...
Within weeks of her nomination's withdrawal, however, Guinier found an unlikely ally. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor ruled that districts like North Carolina's serpentine 12th were "bizarre" and might be challenged as perpetuating "political apartheid." Many voting-rights champions, facing language that seemed to question their very enterprise, were stymied...
...Judge Joseph H. Young of Maryland. Ruling two weeks ago on a Voting Rights Act suit against Worcester County, Maryland, Young bade it change -- not by adding a black-majority enclave, but by adopting one of Guinier's reviled alternatives, cumulative voting. Meanwhile, the New York Times had published a speculative plan drafted by the Washington-based Center for Voting and Democracy explaining how North Carolina could erase its troublesome 12th * in favor of the same system. Suddenly one of Lani's Follies looked like it might be the wave of the future...