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...Department. Being part of CAP was one of his bona fides as an ideological conservative, bolstering his credentials as an opponent to affirmative action. In fact, once he'd won the job, Alito went on to work on cases intended to hold the line against affirmative action (such as Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education...
Some court watchers think they see a recent willingness in Rehnquist to be more accommodating. This spring he joined the court's majority in Wygant vs. Jackson Board of Education to strike down racial quotas in laying off schoolteachers, even though the language of the opinion included a guarded endorsement of affirmative action...
Whatever it meant in the larger struggle, the outcome meant victory for Wendy Wygant and the other white teachers who brought the suit after being laid off in 1981. On hearing the news, she says, "we whooped it up a little." Most had already been rehired, but they may now press for back pay. The layoff plan had been necessary, the Jackson board of education had contended, to assure enough minority role models for its minority students. Lewis Powell, joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist plus O'Connor, disagreed. In their view, a minority preference plan could...
Captain Adolphus Watson, Commander-in-Chief of the Cruiser Squadron of the Pacific Battle Fleet of the United States Navy, will arrive in Cambridge today to replace Captain Wygant who has been instructing in the most advanced Naval Science course...
When Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant, professor of Military Science and Tactics, left the University in the beginning of January to take command of one of the Navy's newest and best equipped ships, the U. S. S. Colorado, Captain Watson received orders from the Navy department to come to Harvard. Because of new orders from the Department Office in Washington, to the effect that he was to remain in charge of the Pacific fleet in the vicinity of Hawaii until the Admiral had ordered the manoeuvers to stop, his period of instruction at Harvard had to be delayed...