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...Supreme Court, he wrote an opinion that not only opened the way for a 17-year-old to have an abortion but also raised concerns generally about parental-notification laws. And he appears wobbly on affirmative action. Published accounts have suggested he toned down a Justice Department brief opposing racial preferences when the Bush Administration filed it in the landmark 2003 case involving affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School. "There are a lot of pro-family, pro-life groups that would probably be quite unhappy if he were the pick," says Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned...
...more severely restricted, at least until another member of the moderate-to-liberal wing departs the bench. In just the past three years, the court has ruled out capital punishment for the mentally retarded and juveniles while overturning a few death sentences because of incompetent legal counsel or racial bias in jury selection. Later this year, the court is scheduled to hear a much anticipated case concerning whether a Tennessee man on death row for the past 19 years can win a new trial because of fresh DNA evidence that may exonerate him. "These nagging questions of innocence have been...
...authors generated an economic model defining the trade-off between popularity and academic achievement. They determined that that relationship is “categorically different” among each of the major racial groups...
...young of today care little for the society their fathers built. Furthermore, in an age of expanding permissiveness, the vandal is no longer so heavily concentrated, if he ever was. among the underprivileged and the poor; as Sociologist Martin has noted, vandalism cannot be classified along racial, ethnic or even economic lines...
...campus—and have tried, with great success, to see their brand of radical theory seep into the curriculum and influence the next generation of lawyers. Most perniciously, Crits have attempted to remake society through laws, to purge society of all its biases—racial, gender, or otherwise. They try to do this through censorship of all dissenting views, Thomas argues, and the results are disastrous...