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Reflecting on Rehnquist's early career, the report cited his oft-quoted memorandum while a Supreme Court law clerk in 1952 to Justice Robert Jackson...
...rights within all the United States, the court did it again. Seizing on the 14th Amendment's phrase "equal protection under the law," it upheld, in Plessy vs. Ferguson, a Louisiana statute mandating separate but "equal" public facilities for blacks. Indeed, those challenging Rehnquist's nomination cite a memorandum he once wrote stating, "I think Plessy vs. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed...
This clash over what must come first may harden. The United Democratic Front, the largest apartheid coalition, which claims more than 600 organizations with 2 million members, now calls for nothing less than the surrender of the South African government. In a memorandum to European Community governments on the eve of British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit last week, the U.D.F. declared that "there is no possibility of peace and the construction of a democratic government while the Nationalist Government remains in power...
...possible, of course, to dismiss such demands as no more than an opening bargaining position, designed to seize the high ground at negotiations. But there are no negotiations under way now, and scant prospect of them in the short term. The memorandum is, it seems, a revolutionary document. "The people," it pledges, "are determined to continue the process of building people's power in our communities, factories and schools regardless of the cost. The possibilities of freedom and democracy are no longer dim and distant. Our victory is certain...
...several students at the school questioned how effectiveley an ideologically divided faculty could publish a journal. In the memorandum Vorenberg wrote that the delay will allow more students to participate in the discussion process about the new journal in order to "take account of the concerns expressed by students affiliated with our existing journals...