Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Created in 1974, the Legal Services Corporation was under fire throughout most of the Reagan era, Wallace said. The former president proposed its abolition during his first seven years in office, and it was saved annually only after Congress insisted on funding...
...Despite Reagan's lack of support for the program, Wallace said the current board was committed to providing legal services to the poor. "I don't have any doubt in my mind about that," he said. "The difference has to do with how the service is best delivered...
...Ronald Reagan's main goals as President was to put his conservative stamp on the federal judiciary. His success on that score was dazzling. Thanks to the large number of openings that occurred during his two terms in the White House, Reagan was able to appoint 346 federal judges -- more than any other President in American history. "It is one of his most enduring legacies, and one of his most significant," says William Bradford Reynolds, the controversial former Assistant Attorney General for civil rights in the Reagan Administration...
Nowhere has that legacy been more apparent than in the makeup of the current U.S. Supreme Court. Three of its nine members -- Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- were appointed by Reagan. William Rehnquist, a Nixon appointee, was promoted to Chief Justice by Reagan. Often allying themselves with Byron White, they have anchored a conservative majority that seems increasingly bent on undoing much of the work of its liberal predecessors...
...major civil rights decisions, the Supreme Court demonstrated its rightward drift. In an anxiously watched North Carolina case, the high bench unanimously reaffirmed a 13-year-old precedent prohibiting racial discrimination in making and enforcing private contracts. But by a vote of 5 to 4 -- with all Reagan appointees in the majority -- the Justices refused to extend the ruling to cover racial harassment in the workplace. Just three days earlier, in a case involving Birmingham fire fighters, the same five significantly lowered the barriers protecting court-approved affirmative- action programs from challenges by white workers...