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nto the same elevator. Remarkably, Mickael Gorbachev was also on the elevator. (I knew it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: “Havel, Sharansky, Gorbachev and Dershowitz get into an elevator.”) Gorbachev turned to me and said, “You’re the big shot lawyer who tried to get these people out of prison. You

rely possible in a heterogeneous and divided democracy. A similar process is today underway with regard to equality for gays. Abortion is different. The Supreme Court’s decision, now more half a century old, changed few minds on this issue, because those who believe that abortion — or certain kinds of abortion — is t

r going to be neatly resolved in a pluralistic democracy; it is an ongoing tight rope walk that requires sensitivity from all sides. It also requires a Supreme Court willing to buck popular pressures in this highly sensitive area that the framers of our Constitution deliberately removed from majoritarian politics.

n inflaming tensions in Korea. "Was Bill Clinton's exp=nsion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then Yeltsin that we wouldn't go an inch furt=er east — was this for Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, and Boeing, and other=, to increase their ne

lood, an African American, considered himself a "swell-paid slaves." With support from the player= union, Flood sued Major League Baseball. In 1970 the US Supreme Court ruled against Flood, but five years later the reserve clause had been abolished and players became free agents, paid according to their abilities an

s before they reentered the atmosphere. Reagan believed this would remove the threat of imminent destruction that had hung over the world since 1945. Gorbachev, on the other hand, felt this was just another escalation in the Cold War, and the Soviet Union would be forced to build yet more weapons to overcome

can be very important; and is sometimes a matter of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015717 28 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? life or death. In Atkins v. Virginia, the US Supreme Court found a person with mental disability, defined as having an IQ of less than 80, cannot be executed. IQ is not really a measurement, in the normal se

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also lit Hanukkah candles in the White House. I then contrasted President Clinton’s warm actions with the response I received from former President Gorbachev several years earlier. I had been invited to speak at an international conference in the Kremlin, during the week of the Jewish New Year. I invited t

basis of race or ethnicity and so structure its selection process as to admit an essentially predetermined proportion of members of certain groups. The Supreme Court’s decision in Bakke accepted our argument against the sort of racial quotas employed by the medical school at issue, but it approved affirmative action