Word: rightwards
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin proves again that he is one of the sharpest court watchers in America. Based on rare interviews with the Justices, Toobin, the legal correspondent for CNN and The New Yorker, traces the extreme rightward turn that the high court has taken under George W. Bush. Yes, Virginia: the Supreme Court reads the election returns. TIME's publishing reporter, Andrea Sachs, caught up with Toobin just as his book hit the shelves...
...shift rightward affected the more senior Justices on the Court...
...From, he remains feisty. He is disappointed that Lieberman, moving steadily rightward, "has gone off further than I hoped he would" on the war, but he scoffs at antiwar Democrats: "Even a stopped watch is right twice a day," he says. "Look, it's the primary season, and they're only playing on half the field," he notes. "To win the White House, you have to play on the entire field. That's where we come in." But, to torture the sports metaphor, they win only if From and the activists decide that they're playing on the same team...
...Whitman, a moderate Republican, stepped down from the EPA in 2003. In 2005, she published a book, “It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America,” criticizing the rightward turn of the Republican party and blaming “social fundamentalists” for marginalizing centrist voters. Whitman’s book was “very brave and an attempt to recenter her party,” said Harvard Law School Professor Jody Freeman. Whitman said yesterday that she anticipates the issues...
...might think that a general trend toward conservatism after 9/11 explains young people's rightward shift, but according to the Council on Education numbers, students actually began reconsidering liberal positions in the '90s. (Support for gun control didn't weaken until after 9/11, though.) Despite all those Girls Gone Wild (and now Guys Gone Wild) videos, young Americans are repositioning themselves not only on political but also on cultural matters. More than one-fifth of last year's freshmen said they never party, twice the percentage of 1987. More kids today say they want a military career, and more hope...