Word: guiniers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought to Washington the truculent manner of a big-city courtroom litigator and the political instincts of a country parson. His involvement in several notable White House debacles, including the travel-office uproar, the extended search for an Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered in investigators' attempts to examine Foster's office...
...fill the post of Assistant Attorney General in charge of the civil rights division, still vacant a year after Clinton took office. Patrick was previously a partner in a Boston law firm and a litigator with the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Two previous candidates, Lani Guinier and John Payton, were scuttled...
...treatment of President Clinton makes it clear that being in government these days requires a much stricter code of conduct than it did even twenty-five years ago. Nor does this code apply only to office-holders. The non-legislative approval process experienced by Bobby Ray Inman, Lani Guinier, John Tower, and others shows that trying to get into the top offices can be just as hard as being there...
When Clinton fails to go through the lengthy process, it is usually costly. He skipped it on gays in the military, the appointment of Lani Guinier (whose works he did not study until it was too late) and Somalia. But when he takes his time, it works. Last summer, after he announced that he would nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, a beaming Clinton returned to the , West Wing and walked into McLarty's office to chat. "That just goes to show that if you give me enough time to make me feel great down here," he said...
...Patrick appears to be a `stealth Guinier.'" said Bolick. "He has no paper trail but is part of the same pro-quota chorus that produced Lani Guinier...