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...White House. Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein explained that after re-examining the issue, the Administration could find nothing in the "plain language" of the IRS code or the history of the legislation that justified the denial of the tax exemptions. Veteran Civil Rights Attorney Joseph Rauh thought otherwise. "This was a sop to the right-wingers," he said. "The law is very clear that you can't give a direct subsidy to a discriminatory institution. I don't see any difference between giving someone a tax exemption and giving them a direct subsidy...
This week hearings begin in the House Judiciary Committee on renewing key provisions of the law yet again; without a fresh mandate from Congress, they will expire next year. "This is going to be one of the toughest civil rights fights of all time," says liberal Washington Lawyer Joseph Rauh, 70, a veteran of many such battles. Opponents of renewal argue that the law's goal of enfranchising blacks has been reached. Says South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: "After 17 years, the states ought to be given a chance...
...Hayden, E.D. Nixon, Allen Ginsberg, Allard Lowenstein, John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, Jerry Rubin, Clark Kerr, James Mellon, Alan Canfora, Paul Williams, Joe Rauh, Bayard Rustin, James Famer. There were different heroes for different people. And though Viorst claims not to have written another history of the '60s, in a superior and unconventional way he has. The history is grounded in the civil rights movement, in Brown vs. the Board of Education, in E.D. Nixon and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It is grounded in the "new values" of Jack Kerouac's prose--an inspiration for Tom Hayden...
...spent and Government affects their lives. Activist Tribe complains that what really irks critics of an interventionist judiciary is not activism per se but the (often) liberal results. Says he: "The myth of the Imperial Judiciary is nothing but a mask for injustice." Or, as Civil Rights Lawyer Joseph Rauh puts it: "The Imperial Judiciary is simply the conservative doctrine of inaction dressed up in $5 words...
...favored it. There were some notable exceptions, however. Two G.O.P. presidential hopefuls?Howard Baker and Robert Dole?voted aye. So did onetime Segregationist Strom Thurmond, who needs every black vote he can get in a close reelection campaign in South Carolina. "Thurmond came over," said Civil Rights Activist Joseph Rauh, "and that was the vote that really made the difference...