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The right-wing assault: what's at stake, what's already happened and what could yet occur. (Court Packing).
American Prospect, The, March, 2003 by Sunstein, Cass R.
Tags: Bush, Government, president, Republican, U.S. Congress
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> Since the election of President Reagan, a disciplined, carefully orchestrated and quite self-conscious effort by high-level Republican officials in the White House and the Senate has radically transformed the federal judiciary. For more than two decades, Republican leaders have had a clear agenda for the nation's courts: to reduce the powers of the federal government; to scale back the rights of those accused of crime; to strike down affirmative-action programs and campaign-finance laws; to diminish privacy rights, including the right to abortion; and to protect commercial ...
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