Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is a chilling thought for civil libertarians -- and a comforting one for conservatives. With abortion, race discrimination, religion and obscenity again crowding the docket, the court is now in a position to press on with much of Ronald Reagan's unfinished social agenda...
Legal scholars trace the origins of the court's rightward swing to Richard Nixon's four appointments to the high bench. Reagan gave the right a working majority by naming his new Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- on the basis of conservative ideology. The three appear to have forged an alliance with Byron White and William Rehnquist, whom Reagan elevated to Chief Justice in 1986. Together, says Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School, they form a "gang of five that increasingly operates without taking into consideration the views of the other...
...determined to stonewall arms treaties until congressional funding of his defense budget is ensured. And although Bush allowed last week that a strategic-arms treaty could be achieved by next year's summit, key White House aides seem inclined to dismiss START as a bothersome holdover from the Reagan Administration...
...want are answers. Will Bush and the Congress produce a housing policy to compensate for eight years of abuse and neglect at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)? Will they reinvigorate that atrophied agency, currently limping along on a $7 billion budget, slashed from $32 billion since Reagan took office...
Restoring a lower tax rate for capital gains would reverse a major part of the 1986 tax overhaul, generally recognized as the biggest domestic achievement of the Reagan administration. That law cut tax rates across the board, but ended special treatment for capital gains and reduced or ended such deductions as state sales taxes and Individual Retirement Accounts...