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...state to account when it fails in its commitments to the disadvantaged. As Justice Scalia's recent article "The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules" demonstrated, most of the reactionaries currently on the Supreme Court have given up on judicial restraint as a doctrine to confining to permit reversals of Warren Court precedents. It's now apparent that their counterparts in Congress have found a new way to manipulate the judicial branch to their ends--by crippling their opponents' ability to use the courts effectively...
Programs that permit parents to choose the public schools which their children attend do not result in consistent learning gains and can even further educational inequality and racial segregation, according to nine studies on the subject coordinated by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...said he bought the gun in Texas "for protection against the Asian gangs there," according to the Harvard police report. He did not have a permit to carry the concealed weapon in Massachusetts, police said...
...along part of the court. In the term-limits case, his separate opinion reflected the conservative fascination with the 10th Amendment, which reserves to the states all power not specifically delegated to the Federal Government. Accordingly, Thomas suggested that the U.S. government exists only to the extent the states permit it. Rehnquist, O'Connor and Scalia signed on. How much further will the conservatives go? Their rulings on race, the commerce clause and church-state separation are open invitations to more litigation--and more struggles for that fifth vote. As chief guidance officer of the liberal wing, William Brennan...
...Supreme Court's ruling in the case shows how radically progressive judicial perspectives need to be altered in the face of new sociological realities. Yet liberals can't expect the courts to solve all their problems. Hopefully, some grass roots political action can lead Boston to give the parade permit to a more inclusive group of marchers in coming years. And perhaps in the midst of reflection on these efforts, economic and social liberals will begin to recognize the deep social basis of their common ground...