Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequent complaints that there was no "new Keynes" to explain or solve inflation, declining productivity and the other persistent problems of the decade. "At the same time," he says, "there has been excited talk about a group of fresh, unorthodox economists who are gaining attention and influence on Capitol Hill...
...political analyses-ranging in length from 1,500 to 15,000 words. Although its purview includes all the works and pomps of Government, the Journal emphasizes the Executive Branch. By contrast, Congressional Quarterly, a crosstown rival of sorts, tends to look at Washington from the vantage point of Capitol Hill. The Journal has a relatively large staff of twelve full-time reporters and five contributing editors. With a generous two to three weeks to work on projects, they often beat their capital colleagues to important but not so obvious stories. Staff Correspondent Robert J. Samuelson's examination last year...
...Inbred in me is a concern for rights of the minority, no matter how unpopular," says Hill, 64. "Concern for religious and political freedom, human rights, just the right to practice a profession and get an education were things that were denied to my forebears." His roots have clearly helped to shape his judicial philosophy: "Whenever you can vindicate the individual against the government, consistent with your judicial obligation...
...chief judge of a federal district court whose jurisdiction includes Los Angeles and 11 million people, Hill could hardly be in a better position to "vindicate" (a favorite word) individual rights. The great expansion of the "due process" and "equal protection" guarantees under the 14th Amendment over the past two decades has taken place largely in the federal courts, and it is to the federal district courts that people come first to assert their constitutional rights. Hill has struck down a California law barring aliens from certain public jobs, and is especially proud of his decision holding that to deny...
...Hill is mindful, however, of the limits to what he can do. When there is a "clear and unequivocal and recent decision" by a higher court, a judge is bound to follow it and not try to carve out new law. Hill also believes deeply in the concept of the judiciary that he learned "at the feet of Felix Frankfurter" when the late Supreme Court Justice was a teacher and Hill a student at Harvard Law School in the late '30s. Says Hill: "Frankfurter had a very strong and very well-thought-out concept of judicial restraint that would...