Word: rightwards
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Hoping to give the federal courts a rightward tilt that would last a generation, Presidents Reagan and Bush appointed federal judges who were conservative, white, male and youngish. Nevertheless, President Clinton has a good chance of remaking much of the federal bench as he would like. There are some 850 federal judgeships; Clinton has already made nominations for 48 of them, and he still has close to 100 vacancies to fill, with more to come in the next three years. Clinton's choices so far reflect a much greater interest in nonmaleness and nonwhiteness than was demonstrated by Bush, Reagan...
...political realist would argue that Clinton had no choice but to oscillate rightward of the political center. He was elected by a mere 43% of the voting public, hardly a mandate for sweeping change in any direction. Once he was in office, Perot and Dole attached themselves to his ankles with the tenacity of rabid terriers. Plus there's the sad fact that underdogs, numerous as they are, tend not to make big campaign contributions, certainly not compared with bankers and lawyers and CEOs...
There hasn't even been a political trend worth mentioning -- the election signifying less a leftward trend than a rejection of the rightward trend, which has been slithering around for two decades now. As a result, we've been forced to import trends, like karaoke, or revive fossil trends like troll dolls, who first showed their wizened little rubber faces almost 30 years...
Ernst Uhrlau, chief of the Hamburg bureau of the Office to Protect the Constitution, fears that the rightward turn is more serious than many suspect. He predicts "more nationalism, less tolerance and a greater sense of radicalization." Hate crimes throughout Germany increased more than fivefold in 1991, to 1,483, compared with 1990, and this year's tally will run even higher. Uhrlau is worried that a wave of ultra-right terror could lie in the future -- a campaign as powerful as the left-wing violence of the late 1960s...
...defending the Pope's teachings and attacking ideologies that "seek to eradicate the natural and essential distinction between the sexes." They passed the petition along and found themselves with an astonishing 50,000 signers. Hitchcock now runs the lay lobby Women for Faith & Family, which has prodded the hierarchy rightward. Their efforts are complemented by a coalition of antifeminist nuns that received Rome's recognition and went into business last month, undercutting the exclusive status of a rival nuns' organization that has pressed for wider women's roles...