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EMBRACING DIVERSITY
August 3. 2005
Kennedy Wary of Roberts’ Civil Rights Record
Bush nominee
papers cast
doubts
A looming point o f contention is
access to documents from Rob
erts' services in Republican admin
istrations.
The White House has released
documents
dating to Roberts’ work
( A PI-Sen.E dw ardM . Kennedy
as
a
special
assistant at the Justice
said T hursday that docum ents
Department
early in the Reagan ad
made public so far indicate the Su
ministration.
The White House also
preme Court nominee John Roberts
has
pledged
to
expedite release of
holds a "rather cramped view of the
records
from
Roberts’
time in the
Voting Rights Act.”
White
House
counsel's
office
from
Materials that Roberts drafted
1983
to
1986.
while at the Justice Department and
Bush adm inistration officials
White House counsel’s office dur
have
said they will refuse to release
ing the Reagan administration "cer
any
of
the documents from Rob
tainly raise some questions in my
erts’
tenure
as principal deputy
mind about hiscommitment” tocivil
solicitor
general
during the admin
rights, said Kennedy, D-Mass.
istration
of
the
first
President Bush.
President Bush named Roberts
K
ennedy’s
office
distributed
to succeed retiring Justice Sandra
U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts (left) with Sen. Ben
Nelson, D-Neb. outside Nelson's Capitol Hill office.
documents that touched on civil
rights cases from two decades ago,
w hen R oberts w orked for the
Reagan administration.
At the time, Congress was con
sidering an extension of the 1965
Voting Rights Act against the
backdrop o f a Suprem e C ourt rul
ing that held that "proof o f in
tent” was needed to dem onstrate
som eone’s rights had been vio
lated.
In a draft opinion article, Rob
erts wrote that the proposal would
“ not simply extend the existing
and effective Voting Rights Act,
but would dram atically change it.
... It’s not broken so th ere’s no
need to fix it.”
In another document, Roberts,
then working in the White House,
wrote that legislation designed to
overturn a different Supreme Court
ruling would "radically expand the
civil rights laws to areas never be
fore considered covered." He rec
ommended against it.
Seven Marines Killed in Iraq Attacks
Reporter
Enters Fifth
Week in Jail
A U.S. soldier
stands guard as
U.S. and Iraqi
troops look for
evidence around a
charred U.S.
military Humvee
that was the target
o f a roadside
attack Tuesday in
Baghdad, Iraq.
(AP Photo)
U.S. death toll
passes 1,800
(A P ) — N ew Y ork T im es repo rter
Ju d ith M iller has entered h er fifth w eek
in ja il. She w as ja ile d July 6 for civil
co n tem p t for refusing to testify to the
grand ju ry in v estig atin g the leak o t the
iden tity o f an u n d erco v er C IA o fficer,
V alerie Plam e. P ro secu to rs w ant M iller
to d ivulge to w hom she spoke w hile
doin g reporting.
H er attorney, R obert B ennett, said she
is d oing “OK und er the c irc u m sta n c es.”
“She certain ly d isag rees w ith the p u n
ishm ent but feels the p rin cip le o f p ro
tectin g the c o n fid en tiality o f her source
is one w orth fig h tin g fo r,” she said.
M iller was part o f a team o f Tim es
reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002
for coverage o f the M iddle East after the
Sept. 11 attacks. She w rote num erous
articles before the U.S. invasion o f Iraq
linking Saddam H ussein’s governm ent to
w eapons o f m ass destruction. W hen no
such stockpiles were found, the paper last
year ran an extensive editor’s note critical
o f its reporting.
(AP) - The U.S. military said Tuesday
that six Marines were killed in action in
western Iraq, pushing the death toll for
Americans since the start of the war past
1,800. A seventh Marine was killed Mon
day by acar bomb in Hit, 50 miles southeast
of Haditha in the volatile Euphrates River
valley.
The six Marines, assigned to Regimental
Combat Team-2 of the 2nd Marine Division,
died Monday in Haditha, 140 miles north
west of Baghdad.
Insurgents posted handbills in Haditha,
claiming to have killed 10U.S. troops, seiz
ing some of their weapons.
In other violence, a roadside bomb tar-
geting a U.S. military convoy exploded
Tuesday at the entrance to a tunnel in
central Baghdad, and at least 29 civilians
were wounded, officials said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces placed a security
cordon around the area. The U.S. military had
no immediate information on casualties.
The bomb left a 3-foot-wide crater in the
ground. Charred parts from the armored
Humvee littered the site and seven civilian
cars were also badly damaged.
U.S. troops took away some items from
the damaged armored vehicle, including a
helmet and two flak jackets.
Congress Protects Gun Makers with New Law
The U.S. Senate voted Friday against
the N A A CP and other groups w anting to
crack dow n on gun violence by voting to
shield firearm s m anufacturers, dealers
and im porters from law suits brought by
victim s o f gun crim es.
The 65-31 vote passed a bill that pro
tects the industry from financial claim s
and law suits.
“This bill says go after the crim inal,
d o n ’t g o a fte rth e law -abiding gun m anu
facturer or the law -abiding gun seller,”
said bill sponsor Sen. Larry Craig, R-
Idaho.
But Sen. E dw ard K ennedy, D -M ass.,
and o th e r o p p o n en ts said the gun in-
d u stry n eed s no su ch sp e c ia l p r o
te c tio n .
“T his bill has one m otivation — p ay
back by the Bush a d m in istra tio n and
the R ep u b lican le a d e rsh ip o f the C o n
gress to the pow erful special in te re st
o f the N atio n al R ifle A sso c ia tio n ,”
K ennedy said.
Anti-Meth
Law is
Approved
Some cold pills
will require
prescription
(AP) - Taking care of
those colds and allergies
will become a little more
difficult when Oregon’s
governor approves a bill
aimed at low ering the
state’s amount of metham
phetamine labs.
The House on Monday
approved a plan to make
Oregon the first state in
the nation to require a pre
scription for many cold and
allergy medicines. The Sen
ate voted 26-4 to approve
the measure, followed by
the House vote at 57-2.
Soon the bill is expected to
reach the desk of Gov. Ted
Kulongoski, who supports
it.
The legislation would re
quire prescriptions by mid-
2006 for medicines con
taining pseudoephedrine
and two similar substances,
which are used in such
popular m edicines as
Sudafed, C laritin and
Theraflu.
The bill was endorsed
despite complaints that it
would unfairly burden law-
abiding citizens who can
not afford doctor visits.
Oregon is among more
than a dozen states that
restrict the sale of pseu
doephedrine tablets to
pharmacies and require
that the medications be kept
behind the counter. Cus
tomers must also show
identification.
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