Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senate for a month debating what title should be used to address President George Washington. His efforts tarred Adams as a closet monarchist and made him a target for those too timid to take on Washington directly. Adams' great goal was to keep American politics nonpartisan. In that he failed. When Washington retired, the election of 1796 became the first between two parties, with Jefferson leading what was then known as the Republicans and Adams the unenthusiastic choice of the Federalists. Indeed, it was only because of the advent of party politics, and the Federalists' ability to scrape together enough...
According to a study by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, two-thirds of all soft money contributed to the 2000 presidential campaigns (about $296 million) came from a tiny group of only 800 donors. And the Economist last week reported that the amount of soft money in presidential campaigns has risen from $90 million (or 17 percent of the total money spent on such campaigns) in 1992 to nearly $500 million (or 41 percent) in 2000. These numbers clearly indicate that the soft money guidelines hinder the ability of those who cannot contribute large sums of money to have...
...Supreme Court, by intervening in this issue when it clearly could not come up with a convincing, one-sided decision, has not upheld its duty to impartially enforce the law. By the admission of the dissenting justices, the court may have permanently damaged its credibility as a nonpartisan institution...
...decision Tuesday night, the Supreme Court has been the target of criticism from pundits and politicians alike. In particular, many have said that the narrow margin by which the court ruled in favor of Texas Gov. George W. Bush will damage its credibility as an unbiased arbiter and nonpartisan enforcer of the law. One of the strongest statements of this feeling came from a surprising source: the Supreme Court itself...
...zealous protesters have occupied street corners since Nov. 8, and their signs have been getting progressively craftier and goofier. By last Friday, rabble rousers even besieged the front porch of the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, there is the occasional misspelling, e.g., WINNERS NOT WINERS. And in our strictly nonpartisan view, Republicans seem to be winning the poster...