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...score of books and, above all, an uncompromising champion of what he liked to call the "first-ness of the First Amendment." During his 36 years as a Supreme Court Justice -a record term-the onetime SEC chairman and law professor at Yale and Columbia battled vigorously to safeguard the rights of individuals...
Landau prefers a different safeguard: a statute banning unreasonable discrimination based on old convictions. Eight states, including New Jersey, now have such a law.* But these strictures mean that an ex-con with a beef about discrimination might have to file a lawsuit, generally a lengthy and expensive undertaking. Expungement supporters argue that cleaning a record is only fair. Says Nebraska's Harnsberger: "If you serve the penalty provided by the judicial system, you shouldn't have to pay a lot of other penalties," such as being rejected for jobs. There is a practical reason as well. Says...
...victim of the Congressional investigations, Navasky says, has a right to forgive the indivuduals who informed or the institutions that made informing possible. "The most I can do," he adds, "is say that they were wrong, that we must safeguard our morals under pressure, and that we have a great deal to learn from those few who resisted and ultimately prevailed...
...Hispanics to the federal judiciary than all previous presidents combined, Reagan's record shows a complete lack of concern for such groups. Where Carter successfully pushed for extension of the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment, Reagan opposes the ERA. Where Carter undoubtedly would appoint justices who will safeguard civil liberties, Reagan and the platform he runs on state that nominees for the Supreme Court would be screened for their opposition to abortion; we pale at the thought of five clever, conniving William Rehnquists making decisions that would affect us for decades to come...
Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, said yesterday the new enforcement policy is needed to safeguard pedestrians, since "the incidence of bicycle riding has increased so much...