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...Supreme Court back, after 25 years of wandering far from the meaning of the Constitution." Others contend that the Senate's constitutional responsibility to advise and consent does not extend to judgments of a candidate's philosophy. Says former Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bator: "If we adopt a political litmus test, our most distinguished members would fail...
...public opinion. "There is increased agitation," admits Jeff Levi, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, "but I don't see it getting anywhere." Many leaders of the New Right, however, are determined to make AIDS an issue that could eclipse abortion as a conservative litmus test for campaigners. "There is a current moving out there that politicians will have to respond to," says Weyrich. Warns Jeffrey Bell, an adviser to Congressman Jack Kemp: "Anyone advocating the American Civil Liberties Union line on AIDS will not be acceptable in the Republican nomination fight...
...polls indicate it will--the state of justice and of the Court in California may never be the same. A political campaign--replete with PACs, and 30-second TV spots--against sitting Supreme Court Justices can only serve to throw the Court into the realm of politics and ideological litmus tests...
...light of local mores. It is the precarious business of statesmanship to recognize these differences and not be deceived by labels. The government of Mexico, readily classified as a democracy, is in certain respects just as harsh and repressive as many regimes classified as dictatorships. The simple litmus test for freedom and civil rights applicable in advanced societies (although they are often violated there as well) cannot be used, for instance, in a country like Turkey, which for decades was ravaged by civil strife and terror. The executive editor of the New York Times, A.M. Rosenthal, asked unhappily...
...surveillance aircraft equipped with Airborne Warning and Control Systems. The first of them is scheduled to arrive this June. Congress blocked an order for an additional 48 F-15s last year, forcing the Saudis to turn to British and European jets. Now Riyadh views its missile request as a litmus test of American support...