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...case of Lani Guinier is slightly different. Her writings, far from being overly vivid, were downright obtuse. But in them she presented some novel ideas for minority representation in a democracy. When Clinton killed her nomination for head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, Guinier warned against "a new intellectual orthodoxy, in which thoughtful people can no longer debate provocative ideas without denying the country their talents as public servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right-Wing P.C. Is Still P.C. | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...appointments also signifies a lack or organization. Why, after such problems sprang from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Judge Kimba Wood for Attorney General, didn't the Clinton team scrutinize its next choices more? If the press could find Stephen Breyer's "Zoe Baird Problem" and Lani Guinier's inflammatory writings within a week of the release of their names, why couldn't Clinton & Co.? The public's disillusionment with the president could come from his snatch-and-grab appointments as much as his programs...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Disillusioned by Those Democrats | 7/13/1993 | See Source »

...conservatives hope. Perhaps some experimentation is in order involving the election of blacks to at-large seats through systems of "cumulative" or "limited" voting. Yet the political theory is knotty, and the surrounding sensitivities raw: it was grapplings along precisely these lines that a month ago crippled Guinier's public career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snakes Or Ladders! | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

Next it was her loyalty to Lani Guinier, whose nomination as Assistant Attorney General Reno continued to support long after the rest of the Administration had decided to cut her loose. Reno, of course, had nothing to do with nominating Guinier in the first place. Like other picks for top jobs at Justice, Guinier had a long-standing connection with her Yale Law School classmates Bill and Hillary. But Reno came to genuinely like Guinier, and hoped to work with her. Once the President decided otherwise, White House officials complain, Reno still gave Guinier a room at the Justice Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth, Justice and the Reno Way | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

From the first, White House aides have made it known to Reno's aides that they consider it important that top Justice appointees should be loyal to the President, not to the Attorney General. Of 13 principal aides, including Guinier, only four so far can be clearly identified as Reno's picks. Many were in the pipeline before Reno was selected. Webb Hubbell, the Associate Attorney General, is Hillary Clinton's former law partner and President Clinton's frequent golf partner. But Hubbell swears loyalty to Reno, and they have become fast friends in a very short time. Hubbell says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth, Justice and the Reno Way | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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