Page 6, Portland Observer, September 9, 1987
BORK NOMINATION MUST
BE STOPPED
by Rep. John Conyers Jr.
The Reaganite judges on the federal courts aren't even waiting for the
seating of Robert Bork on the Supreme Court before scuttling affirmative
aCLast weekVdecision by a divided panel of the United States Court of
A reception honoring Tim Takaro, M .D , and Susan Cookson was
held last Wednesday at the Graystone Gallery. Takaro and Cookson
have recently returned from a year of providing m edical services in
N icaragua The pair spoke o f th e ir experiences in Nicaragua and
gave a slide presentation. Friends o f Ben Linder, the Portlander who
was murdered by the Contra earlier this year
repairs to be made to the hospital in Corinto,
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Multi-Cultural Education and Activities in a Pluralistic Society" will
be the topic of an address to the Salem Multicultural Forum on September
15, 1987. Ms. Leonard is coordinator of the Portland Public Schools Multi
cultural/Multi-ethnic Education Program.
The Salem Multicultural Forum is a group of employees devoted to
promoting cross-cultural awareness in state government. "W e understand
the importance of learning about cultures different from our ow n," states
coordinator George Ejim. George, an employee of the Oregon Department
of Transportation, attributes the energy behind the forum to Bob Bothman,
the Director of Transportation, for his encouragement and support of the
group.
Ms. Leonard is a member of the State Commission on Black Affairs
She was also given a newspaper Merit Award for Outstanding Community
Service earlier this year.
Also on the September program is Marta Sartain, the first woman
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Appeals tor the District of Columbia in the D.C. fire department case is a
portent of what can be expected in the area of civil rights if Judge Bork is
permitted to fill Justice Lewis Powell s seat on the high Court.
Just this past March, the Supreme Court decided 5-4, with Justice Powell
casting the decisive vote, that public employers could voluntarily institute
affirmative action hiring programs in order to redress a, manifest imbalance
in traditionally segregated job categories. In the face of that clear mandate,
two Reagan appointees to the Circuit Court ruled last week that the D.C
Fire Department’s affirmative action plan was unconstitutional.
The dissent by Judge Abner Mikva, a Carter appointee, accused the
majority of "distortion of the law" and ignoring the clear intent of the Sup
reme Court s decision in Johnson v. Transportation Agency, the case
decided in March.
.
But what is obvious is that the Reaganite majority on the panel has read
the handwriting on the wall and concluded that Bork will soon create a solid
conservative majority on the Supreme Court to overrule the Johnson deci
sion. It is up to the people to guarantee that Judge Bork never has that
opportunity.
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For the past 30-plus years, since the Supreme Court s landmark decision
in Brown v. Board of Education, the federal courts have been generally on
the side of expanding racial equality. But that parade of progress is now in
jeopardy.
During the past decade, the Court has been retreating slowly from the
advanced positions on civil rights established under the leadership of the
late Chief Justice Earl Warren and the outspokenly liberal Justice William
Brennan Jr. Starting with the Bakke case, which invalidated the affirmative
action admission program at the University of California Medical School at
Davis, the high court has equivocated on the issue. However, Justice
Powell has refused to endorse the full position of the conservative bloc that
programs which are intended to benefit the former victims of discrimination
and remedy the social impact of past racism constitute illegal discrimination
against the white majority.
Bork is ready and willing to transform the right-wing minority into the
majority. He has been an unyielding opponent of every major civil rights
advance for the past 40 years, judicial and legislative.
Bork's opposition to black civil rights goes all the way back to the 1948
case of Shelley vs. Kramer, one of the Supreme Court's first pro-civil rights
decisions, holding judicial enforcement of racially restrictive deed coven
ants unconstitutional. Under Judge Bork s view of the constitution, expres
sed in a 1971 law review article denouncing the Shelley decision, courts or
law would have been required to provide legal protection to patterns of
segregated housing throughout the country. His opposition to civil rights is
further illustrated by the following:
— He opposed passageof the 1964Civil Rights Act barring discrimination
in public accommodations, on the ground that proprietors of restaurants
and other public facilities had a right to refuse to associate with persons of
color.
— In 1972, he urged Congress to pass legislation drastically curtailing
school desegregation remedies that the Supreme Court had said were
necessary to cure violations of the 14th Amendment.
—When Congress adopted legislation banning the use of literacy tests
which restricted voting rights, Bork thought the Supreme Court should
Nomination of a man with so little respect for the rights of racial minorities
is an insult to millions of American citizens. This country has come too far in
the past 20 years to tolerate on the Supreme Court a person with the views
of Robert Bork. At a time when we pride ourselves on the advances brought
about by the civil rights movement, his confirmation would represent a major
step backward into a bygone era when people of color had no rights which a
white person was bound to respect.
The next six weeks, during which time the United States Senate w ill
decide whether to confirm the Bork appointment, is a crucial time for all
Americans, especially blacks and other minorities. It will decide the future of
race relations in this country for many decades ahead. It is crucial that we let
our Senators know that they must "say no to Bork.”
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