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...high court. To a host of legal scholars, Democratic politicians and aroused liberals who saw beneath the surface, however, the words meant something else altogether. The President, these critics complained, was wrapping himself in the Constitution while trying, in the words of Julius Chambers, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, "to impose his own narrow ideological views onto the Supreme Court...
...Popeo, general counsel of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation. "Judicial restraint is going to be fashionable." Liberals were downcast. The nominations of Rehnquist and Scalia "signal an effort by the President to impose his own narrow ideological views onto the Supreme Court," protested Julius Chambers, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund...
...Cambridge representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) suggested at a city council meeting last night that the street commemorate Martin Luther King Jr., as part of a wider tribute that will take place nationwide this January. This suggestion has won tremendous support from Black communities in Cambridge...
Naming the avenue after a widely recognized Black figure will provide a role model for Riverside children, said Joan K. Harris, head of the Cambridge branch of the NAACP...
...wise for the Democrats to loosen their public ties with organized groups. But this disentanglement must be accompanied by a strong confirmation of support for the principles those groups are supposed to represent. The main thing should not be the NAACP endorsement, or putting x number of NOW members on a commission, but rather putting forth proposals for job programs and child care for working mothers, and fighting to uphold civil rights measures now being eroded...