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Vincent
Blasi commented on the Supreme Court's school
voucher decision in the June 28 Plain
Dealer, agreeing that the ruling represented
the most sweeping endorsement the court has given
to public financial support for religious schools.
"This is enormously consequential," he said.
"Once you uphold this Cleveland program, it's
hard to imagine any other [voucher] program that will
be struck down."
A June 22 Virginian-Pilot
article on the Supreme Court's Adkins v. Virginia
decision included Richard
Bonnie's response to critics expecting a rash
of fraudulent claims of mental retardation from death
row inmates. "You do not suddenly become retarded,"
he said."The question is: Do we have to worry
about manufactured evidence? The answer is: No, because
it is likely that in a large majority of situations
there will be historical evidence of mental retardation."
Bonnie's Senate testimony on a proposed Elder Justice
Act was featured in the June 24 Baton
Rouge Advocate. Representing the National
Academy of Sciences, he noted that there had been
few peer-reviewed studies exploring the extent of
elder abuse but that records compiled by public-service
agencies "give us a sound basis for determining
that it is a terribly serious problem."
Kim
Forde-Mazrui wrote an op-ed piece for the
June 17 Legal
Times, analyzing how the Supreme Court would
likely treat the 6th Circuit's decision in Grutter
v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan Law School
affirmative action case. He concluded: "The average
black child born today is exceedingly more likely
than the average white child to be raised in poverty,
in a broken family, in a community marked by substance
abuse, violent crime, and poor quality schools. Unless
we assume that along with darker skin a child of color
biologically inherits a propensity to fail, to commit
crime, or to die a violent death, we should recognize
that these conditions result from generations of injustice
whose effects will take effort and time to overcome.
To ignore racial differences in the name of colorblindness
is to guarantee their perpetuation."
Several news stories quoted A.
E. Dick Howard, beginning with a June 9 Virginian-Pilot
story on the power of Virginia's sheriffs and other
locally elected constitutional officers. An Associated
Press story on Jerry Falwell, appearing in the June
18 Richmond
Times-Dispatch and several other newspapers
around the country, included Howard's comments on
Falwell's successful lawsuit forcing the state corporation
commission to grant his church a charter. "To
allow anybody to not incorporate based on religion
was on its face a violation of the First Amendment,"
he said. "That's an easy call." Howard was
quoted extensively in a June 28 Richmond
Times-Dispatch story on school vouchers in
Virginia, noting that the state constitution's provisions
that preclude the channeling of public school money
to private schools would prove a "daunting"
barrier to anyone who would want to start a voucher
program. A June 28 Virginian-Pilot
story on the 9th Circuit's Pledge of Allegiance decision
included Howard's comments that those who believe
the Supreme Court will strike down the ruling "shouldn't
be so quick to draw that conclusion. Where you have
prayer or other religious exercises as a part of the
school day itself, the court has been pretty tough
on that."
A June 28 USA
Today profile of Chief Justice William Rehnquist
included John
Jeffries's comments that "The influence
of one justice on the others is never as important
as the identities of all nine justices. But, that
said, Rehnquist has been very influential." Jeffries
noted that Rehnquist has been willing "to stake
out strong positions and confidently defend them,"
but that he "never burned a bridge, no matter
how much he disagreed with another justice."
David
Martin was quoted in several stories on immigration-related
issues, including a June 8 Philadelphia
Inquirer article on proposals for using local
police to enforce immigration laws and a June 23 Kansas
City Star story on the Justice Department's
treatment of terrorism suspects. He warned in a June
10 Legal
Times article that splitting the INS from
the Department of Justice could make the war on terrorism
more difficult. "It's a bit of a disadvantage
not to work with the rest of the DOJ machinery,"
he said. "The complications will come in dealing
with criminal investigations." A June 12 Knight
Ridder/Tribune News Service on the military detention
of Jose Padilla, the accused al-Qaida "dirty
bomber," included Martin's comments: "Right
now, I think they're acting in good faith and with
the best of intentions. But if you can say that you
believe a person is associated with al-Qaida and then
be able to limit their access to an attorney and hold
them indefinitely, then that's a power that's really
subject to abuse."
A June 11 InfoWorld
Daily News story on an AEI telecommunications
policy conference and the future of the FCC featured
comments from Glen
Robinson. "Change is everywhere,"
he said. "For 30 years things were quiet for
the Bell system and the FCC; now they're whirling
dervishes." Robinson predicted that the FCC would
continue to play a role: "Whatever changes (occur)
in the next 10 years, the FCC will be around to greet
them. The FCC ... is a survivor."
Jim
Ryan was quoted in a June 28 Baltimore
Sun story on school vouchers, saying that
the results might not be that far-reaching. "I
wouldn't expect much," he said. "Most suburbanites
are opposed to school choice because they're happy
with their schools, and they worry about any money
leaving schools, and they worry about kids outside
their districts—mostly urban kids—coming
into their district." He also commented in the
June 30 New York
Times that the voucher ruling may resemble
Brown less because of what will happen than because
of what won't. "It may very well be Brown
v. Board of Ed, but guess what, Brown didn't do
all that much to desegregate the schools because there
was so much political opposition to it."
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VINCENT
BLASI
"Court
Upholds Voucher/Cleveland Tuition Program OK'd in 5-4
Decision," June 28, 2002, Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
RICHARD
J. BONNIE
"Breaux Bill Would Strengthen, Focus Elder Abuse
Prevention," June 24, 2002, Medicine & Health.
"Legislature to Study Court Ruling on Mentally
Retarded Killers," June 24, 2002, AP.
KIM
FORDE-MAZRUI
"Will
Affirmative Action Survive?," June 17, 2002,
Legal
Times.
A.E.
DICK HOWARD
"Pledge
Ruling Sparks Debate," June 28, 2002, The
Virginian-Pilot
"Legal Barriers High in Virginia," June 28,
2002, Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
"Religion Today," June 28, 2002, AP story
in The
New York Times.
"He's Got High Hopes/Falwell Awaits Ruling That
Will Decide Future of His Property," June 18, 2002,
AP (in Richmond-Times Dispatch).
"Falwell's Hoped-For Legacy: A Master-Planned Christian
Community," June 15, 2002, AP.
JOHN
C. JEFFRIES Jr.
"Virginia Schools Get
A Taste Of Michigan's Affirmative Action Woes,"
June 5, 2002, Fulton County Daily Report.
"Discrimination, Not Diversity," June 3,
2002, Legal Times.
PAUL
LOMBARDO
"Facing Up to a Sorry Chapter at LI Lab,"
June 11, 2002, Newsday.
DAVID
A. MARTIN
"Changing Equation," June 19, 2002, Miami
Daily Business Review.
"Legal Scholars Question Handling of Accused Dirty
Bomber," June 12, 2002, Knight Ridder Washington
News Bureau.
"Suspect in 'Dirty Bomb' Plot To Be Detained Indefinitely,"
June 12, 2002, San Jose Mercury
News.
"Bush Plans: INS Finds Itself in Center Ring,"
June 10, 2002, Legal
Times.
"Local Police Could Be Called On To Find Illegal
Aliens," June 8, 2002, The
Philadelphia Inquirer.
ROBERT
M. O'NEIL
"Survey: Many Willing to Give Up Freedoms"
June 29, 2002, The
Daily Progress (AP).
GLEN
ROBINSON
"Today's
Events in Washington," June 11, 2002, Bulletin's
Frontrunner.
"Experts Debate the Future of Telecom,"
June 11, 2002, InfoWorld
Daily News.
JAMES
E. RYAN
"Vouchers:
A Shift, But Just How Big?", June 20, 2002,
The
New York Times.
ROBERT
F. TURNER
"War on Terror Uncharted Legal Territory,"
June 24, 2002, Time.
"Padilla
- Why U.S. Shunned Federal Court," June 17,
2002,
Legal Times.
"Why the U.S. Shuns Federal Court in Terror Cases,"
June 17, 2002, The Recorder.
"In Liberal, Conservative and Military Circles,
Alarm Over Padilla Case," Newhouse News Service.
"Pre-emption
and American Foreign Policy," June 4, 2002,
Talk of the Nation, NPR.
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