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Clinton withdraws civil rights nominee
WASHINGTON (API — In a
move that enraged the civil rights
community. President Clinton
withdrew the nomination of l-ani
Guinier. a friend of two decades,
as his civil rights enforcer.
Clinton said some of her con
troversial views would have been
"very difficult to defend" against
Senate critics
"I’m convinced that the admin
istration has taken a giant step
backward," said Kweisi Mfurno.
I)-Md . chairman of the Congres
sional Blac k Caucus "Fairness
and due process were abandoned
for political e*pedien«:y."
Clinton annoum ed his deci
sion after a 75-minute Oval Oflioe
meeting with Guinier. who he
said was "surprised that 1 felt the
wav I did " Attorney General
Janet Reno, who hod stnuni hly
supported Guinier. attended the
meeting briefly
Guinier made no immediate
statement Her husband. Temple
University communications Pro
fessor Nolan Howie, said Guinier
remained in Washington, hut she
checked out of her hotel.
Clinton said he understood
the anger civil rights leaders
would feel and vowed to consult
them as he sought a new nomi
nee. saying he hoped to make a
decision within several days.
But civil rights activists who
lumbastod Clinton said they had
no candidates.
Clinton's announcement end
ed days of news reports that he
was going to abandon Guinier.
The speculation became so
intense that Guinier even made
an extraordinary televised plea
Wednesday night for a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing
that would let her defend herself
against critics who she said
"distorted" her academic writ
ings to make her views appear
radical
At the same time, civil rights
leaders escalated their campaign
to save the nomination
Mfume public iy warned Clin
ton that dropping Guinier would
cost him the c aucus' political
support on a number of issues,
and noted that the president w ill
need their voles to pass his pro
grams The caucus has 40 mem
bers, 30 of them in the House that
passed Clinton's budget package
last wt*ek by just six votes
After Clinton announc ed his
dec ision in a brief, televised news
conference. Mfume said in an
interview that the Blac k C-aucus
"must now reassess and re-eval
uate its relationship and role with
this administration into the
future."
Clinton has been trying to
move to a more c entrist position
after sliding to a 36 percent
approval rating in some polls, but
Tm convinced that
the administration
has taken a giant
step backward.
Fairness and due
process were
abandoned for
political
expediency.’
Kweisi Mfume,
D Md, chairman of the Con
gressional Black Caucus
he maintained that he nlwndoned
the nomination over principle,
not politics
Guinier, he said, had views
that "dearly lend themselves to
interpretations that do not rep
resent the views that I expressed
on civil rights during my cam
paign."
He tingled out her article in the
March 1991 Michigan Law
Review as unacceptable, saying
it ''seemed to be arguing for prin
ciples of proportional represen
tation in minority veto as gener
al remedies that I think are
inappropriate as general reme
dies and anti-democratic — very
difficult to defend."
Guinier. a 43-year-old Univer
sity of Pennsylvania law profes
sor who attended Yale Univer
sity Law School with the Clin
tons. was attacked as a "quota
queen” with far-out views about
the federal Voting Rights Act. The
initial criticism came from con
servative activists but it spread
to the centrist Democratic Lead
ership Council and a number of
Senate Democrats.
Roger Wilkins, a close friend
ofGuinier's and a former Justice
Department official, said: "Lani
Guinier was nibbled to death
bv cowardly, anonymous White
House aides."
Patricia Ireland, president of
the National Organization for
Women, told a Bloomington.
Ind.. audience that the nomina
tion was blocked because
Guinier was "willing to speak
out articulately, persuasively
and effectively against the
exclusion of African Americans
and women from the position of
power."
Clinton drew praise, howevor,
from Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell, D-Maine.
"While Ms. Guinier has a dis
tinguished record as a civil rights
litigator, the controversy around
her writings would have been
divisive and counterproductive
to the goals of civil rights enforce
ment," Mitchell said in a state
ment.
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