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...fact, they had expected pleasant news. The Senate Judiciary Committee seemed likely to approve a bill that would extend the commission's life and retain all its present members, including themselves. But hours before the committee was to meet, the White House gave Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman a totally different message. As expressed in a letter hand-carried to Berry's office and signed by Personnel Assistant John S. Herrington, it was: "The President has requested that I inform you that your appointment as a member of the Commission on Civil Rights...
...sacked commissioners did not go quietly, however. Instead, the dismissals intensified a political storm in which not only the commission's membership but its continued existence is in question. Berry and Ramirez sued in federal court for an injunction forbidding their removal. The Judiciary Committee postponed its meeting, but the 45-member Senate Democratic Caucus formally denounced the firings. More than 30 Senators and 19 Representatives lined up to sponsor a dramatic bipartisan resolution to convert the commission into a body whose members would be appointed by legislative leaders rather than by the President...
Last May, Reagan made yet another move: to replace Berry, Ramirez and Saltzman with three other Democrats, putatively closer to the President's way of thinking. They are Morris Abram, former president of Brandeis University; John Bunzel, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Robert Destro, law professor at Catholic University. Critics who had held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate...
Civil rights groups were outraged five months ago when the president tried to replace three of the six commission members. He fired those three-Mary Berry. Blandina Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman...
Berry and Ramirez were appointed to the commission by President Jimmy Carter...