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...years, Schlafly has battled the liberals--even Republican liberals. In the 1960s, Schlafly was an outspoken critic of Rockefeller Republicans and the Eastern Establishment which once dominated the party. Schlafly was one of the women the press dubbed "little old ladies in tennis shoes" who helped guide Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater to the Republican nomination...
...loyal Catholic and a mother of six, Schlafly is an outspoken critic of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision which threw out all anti-abortion laws and mandated abortion-on-demand. But, unlike New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey, she isn't bothered that some prominent pro-choice Republicans are being given high-profile speaking slots at the convention. "I'm very tolerant. It's okay with me if people who are for abortion support George Bush: it's not going to affect George Bush's positions [on abortion], however," Schlafly said...
...elected rather than appointed. "I never would have been a judge if I sat around waiting for someone to appoint me. I went out and got myself elected," says Justice Kenneth N. Browne, who was first elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1973 and is an outspoken advocate of the need for more black judges. "No judge is infallible. They all bring to their jobs their predilections and their experiences," says Browne. "There can be no progress in the criminal-justice system without the contribution of men of color...
Says who? Why the Justices' very own colleague Harry Blackmun. It was not the first time the outspoken Nixon appointee chose to ignore custom by critiquing the court. While Blackmun, 79, had some favorable remarks at a judicial conference in St. Louis, he outdid himself with sharp words about individual Justices. What especially seems to upset Blackmun, however, is the tendency of President Reagan's appointees to vote as a conservative bloc. "All the appointees of the present Administration are voting one way," he complained. "When I started, we tried to just be good judges...
...heroic aspects of Washington during these years: a rapidly expanding bureaucracy and its petty infighting over exceedingly short supplies and space; a rigidly circumscribed, deeply impoverished and grossly ignored Black community; a non-existent municipal government that was in effect run by one of the nation's most outspoken racists, Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo, chairman of the obscure Senate District Committee beginning in 1944; a financial elite far more intent on improving their social status by flattering their fellow hob-nobbers than on making a productive contribution to the war effort...