Word: verner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come next month at a dinner benefiting both the House and Senate campaign committees. Senators ranging from New York's Alfonse D'Amato to Michigan's Spence Abraham have been personally dunning CEOs. But the hard sell is not necessary. The PAC of the big-time lobbying law firm Verner Liipfert, for one, has already decided to give at least 60% of its money to Republicans; it used to give 70% to Democrats. And Congressman Deal has been getting a different kind of payoff for his recent switch: his calls have been running 3 to 1 in favor...
...comments ignited a storm of criticism and investigation. Snapped the Rev. Edward Verner, head of a black ministers' organization in Newark: "To suggest that the black vote or the black church is up for sale is a racist lie." The Justice Department and the state attorney general began investigations of possible criminal and civil rights violations, while Democratic leaders went to court seeking to have Whitman's victory nullified. Whitman initially denounced Rollins' assertion as "blatantly untrue" but late in the week said she would consider resigning if it was proved that the payoffs had been made and changed...
...decide when the government's interest in law enforcement should take priority over someone's private religious practices. The first major ruling on that issue came in 1879, when $ Mormons were forbidden to practice polygamy. One of the leading precedents was fixed in 1963 in Sherbert v. Verner, when the Supreme Court ruled that a worker who refused to work on Saturdays because it was a day of worship was still entitled to unemployment compensation. In that opinion, the court stated that government had to demonstrate a "compelling interest" in order to justify an infringement of religious liberty...