Rehnquist Nomination
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Rehnquist will be confirmed as chief justice. The question is: Should he be?
Many people find that even though he is an extreme conservative, he is a competent craftsman and a legal scholar. We should also remember other things about this man. He opposed remedies to correct school segregation; he opposed public-accommodations legislation; he supported tax credits for segregated schools; in one case he supported the right of the prosecutor to prevent blacks from serving on a jury.
What does this say about this man? What is immediately apparent is that there is ironically a total lack of justice here. Rehnquist is a man of bias. And bias is wrong, and it shouldn’t be found in a chief justice. Rehnquist shouldn’t be a chief justice. He shouldn’t have been an associate justice. In fact, he shouldn’t be a judge--not when he engages in actions like these.
DON RADEMACHER
Los Angeles
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