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With Supreme Injustice, scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press this spring, Dershowitz said he is trying to reach not just an academic audience, but the common voter as well...
...tests rose from 44% to 64%. Paige placed principals on performance contracts contingent on student achievement and saved the district money by contracting out lunchroom and maintenance services. With the help of Houston business executives, whose conservative politics had historically been at odds with the district leadership, Paige won voter approval for a $678 million bond issue in 1998--the largest of its kind in Texas--to repair 69 schools and build 10 new ones...
...civil rights activists in particular will be keeping their eyes on Justice; legislation pertaining to voter redistricting (an often controversial and divisive issue) is likely to surface soon. And given many black voters' dissatisfaction and claims of disenfranchisement (stemming primarily from last November's presidential election), debate surrounding redistricting could prove explosive. The new AG will be watched like a hawk as he maneuvers through this one, but if he handles it well, Ashcroft has a chance to calm fears within the black community that he is insensitive to their concerns...
...some valuable political capital. They will not alienate his base, and they will benefit Bush far more in the black community than naming Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice to his Cabinet has. First, President Bush can order the Justice Department to launch a full-scale investigation of allegations of voter irregularities and Fourteenth Amendment voter disenfranchisement violations in Florida. This will help him to neutralize criticism of his campaign and will also give him a bully pulpit to stay public on this issue and make sure he gets as much political credit as possible for "bold and immediate" actions...
...Broder's nose for "a broad and strong constituency" may be right; after all, here's a man who's been around Washington longer than the Potomac. And matching new programs directly against the public pocketbook would certainly prick up a few voter ears. But there's already a "broad and strong constituency" for economy in government, along with one for campaign finance reform, a cleaner environment, improving the nation's schools and ending poverty, and look where that's gotten the voters. That's why only half of them vote...