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...courtroom in Atlanta chanted, "Hang the Jew." After the Governor courageously commuted his sentence from death to life imprisonment, he was kidnaped from his jail cell and lynched. For more than 70 years, defenders of the frail, scholarly Leo Frank have fought to reverse the verdict against him as unjust and bigoted. Last week Frank was finally given a belated measure of justice when a Georgia board awarded him a posthumous pardon...
...UNJUST DESSERTS...
...historical level, we can also note some surprising parallels. In late February, students staged a sit-in in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) to protest Yale’s financial aid policies. The French had their Bastille; Yale had the OUA. A correlation between the storming of an unjust prison and a sit-in for fairer financial aid policies: coincidence? I think not. Yale rose up again in April, when graduate students set up a strike for teaching unions. This is like the March on Versailles for bread—a loud demand for better treatment...
Hastrup takes what is called the “Dover Beach” approach to the current Senate debate over the President’s right-wing judicial nominees: high mindedly pronounce both sides at fault, and tell one, the Democrats, to surrender (“end an unjust war and take the high moral ground”). The issue is really not one of principle, but of simple fairness. Having gone out of their way to obstruct in unprecedented fashion President Clinton’s judicial nominations in committee for eight years, Republicans are now determined to fill many...
...outcome. Democrats should brush aside perceived short-term gains from filibustering and reassert their commitment to an up-or-down vote on nominees. A recent poll showed that while only 37 percent of Americans support going nuclear, 80 percent support floor votes on all nominees. Dems should end an unjust war and take the moral high ground...