Word: leftward
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...probably turned less on an ideological move than on his support for states' rights, since a basic issue was whether Massachusetts and other state plaintiffs had standing to sue for federal regulation. But the study says Kennedy started out conservative and shifted left before leveling off, meaning a renewed leftward tilt is possible...
...anger-management session. Five years ago, Bush turned his back on Latin America - petulantly disengaging from issues that mattered most to Latin capitals like immigration reform and U.S. agriculture subsidies - because most of its nations refused to back his Iraq invasion. Since then, much of the region has turned leftward and anti-U.S. Bush was reminded about this at each stop of his five-nation tour - and each time his initial reaction was to hunch his shoulders, flash that exasperated look and angrily deny...
...strange, hermetic world of the highest court in the land. The book reveals Clarence Thomas--often seen as Antonin Scalia's understudy--to be a surprisingly forceful conservative voice on the court who sways Scalia rather than the other way around and who pushes more moderate Justices leftward in reaction. Greenburg also shows that when William Rehnquist fell ill but didn't step down, Sandra Day O'Connor was effectively forced to resign early to avoid the possibility of a double vacancy on the court. O'Connor, who snipes with Scalia in the book, is frank about the court...
...Take the congressional race in Louisville. Despite the city's location just spitting distance from the Bible Belt - and directly across the river from conservative, rural Southern Indiana - voters veered leftward in picking an unabashed liberal to replace a popular and well-entrenched conservative Republican congresswoman. Indeed, no one in this city has ever mistaken Democrat John Yarmuth - founder and former editor of an alternative newspaper called Louisville Eccentric Observer - as a centrist, much less a conservative...
...Ortega won - backfired miserably, actually helping boost the Sandinista leader to his first-round victory. That such U.S. pressure tends to work in favor of its opponents is a lesson Washington seems woefully unable to learn in a post-Cold War Latin America whose electorates have unexpectedly turned leftward in recent years...