Word: hatchings
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While the Racial Justice Act's fine points are steeped in legal arcana, the bill inspired fierce rhetoric in the Senate last week. The act, said Orrin Hatch of Nevada, "has nothing to do with racial justice and everything to do with abolishing the death penalty" by employing "unreliable and manipulable statistical quota." To the act's defense came Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois -- with statistics. Since 1988, she said, the government has sought the death penalty for drug kingpins in 36 cases involving four whites, four Hispanics and 28 blacks. Said Moseley-Braun: "Keep in mind that...
...Senate. Above all, the President doesn't want a messy confirmation fight. On that score Breyer, a onetime chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will vote on his nomination, can't be beat. In fact, he has the support of such ideological opposites as Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy...
Under the Hatch Act, some federal workers arenot allowed to participate in public politicalactivity...
According to the Associated Press, a StateDepartment spokesperson called the message "a grayarea" and said the department "will have to lookat" whether Flynn violated the Hatch...
Should the state law actually be enforced byeither the attorney general's office or the citysolicitor, Walsh has still another escape hatch:he can challenge the constitutionality of thestate law in court...