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...binge has brought protests from several prominent Democrats on Capitol Hill, including Senators Edward Kennedy and Howard Metzenbaum. Says Metzenbaum: "If Mr. Reagan wants to eliminate the antitrust laws, he ought to come up here with legislation, not skulk around accomplishing the same thing through inaction." Republican Senator Strom Thurmond promised last week that his Judiciary Committee would hold hearings on the Conoco question...
Many conservative Republican Senators added their endorsement. Utah's Orrin Hatch called it "a fine choice." Reagan's close friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, was enthusiastic, and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said he was "delighted by the nomination." But South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was a bit more restrained. "I intend to support her," he said, "unless something comes...
...going to be one of the toughest civil rights fights of all time," says liberal Washington Lawyer Joseph Rauh, 70, a veteran of many such battles. Opponents of renewal argue that the law's goal of enfranchising blacks has been reached. Says South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: "After 17 years, the states ought to be given a chance to get out from under the act." Responds Senator Edward Kennedy, who along with Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland and Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey is proposing a ten-year extension...
...chief opponent of the act is Thurmond, who has replaced Kennedy as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Once a rabid segregationist, Thurmond is now quite accommodating to the blacks who make up one-third of his constituency. He has hired blacks for his staff and helped appoint a black federal judge in his state. But he is not exactly a convert to the civil rights movement, and he wants to amend the Voting Rights Act to provide a way that states can avoid federal clearance of new election laws. If that cannot be done, then Thurmond and other Southern...
...provisions of this 1965 statute, which bars the use of literacy tests and other schemes that once blocked racial minorities from registering and voting, do not expire until 1982. Nonetheless, both supporters and opponents are already preparing for battle on whether the law should be extended. Republican Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is leading the opposition. He is counting on White House support, but Reagan has not yet decided what stand, if any, to take on the renewal of the law. The legislative fight promises to be a bruising one, since blacks, Hispanics and their supporters are already charging that...