Bill Clinton Abandoned Respected Civil Rights Lawyer, Lani Guinier:

[amborin]

When President Clinton abandoned Lani Guinier, she became the latest in a string of jilted appointees dumped once controversy arose. Guinier, who was nominated as head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, was a respected civil rights lawer, legal theorist...... Why ultimately did he abandon her nomination? What in her writing as a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor prompted such bitter opposition? ....

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the opposition included the centrist-liberal New York Times, New Democrats like Al From of the Democratic Leadership Council, and neanderthal liberals such as A.M. Rosenthal

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Two other aspects of "Keeping the Faith" underline subjects over which Guinier and New Democrats were bound to clash. One concerns the nature and definition of race relations. New Democrats stress that what appear to be racial differences in outcomes increasingly stem from differences in preparation or training as opposed to current, invidious racial discriminations.

Guinier, by contrast, emphasizes the continuity of racism as the all-important force shaping race relations. Blacks, she writes, are "still the pariah group."

Another inevitable clash was over race-based affirmative action. New Democrats tend to be skeptical of the justice and efficacy of affirmative action....

http://prospect.org/article/lani-guiniers-constitution


Bernie has always supported Affirmative Action:



Voted NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions.

HR 6, the Higher Education Amendments Act of 1997, would prohibit any post-secondary institution that participates in any program under the Higher Education Act from discriminating or granting any preferential treatment in admission based on race, sex, ethnicity, color or national origin.

Reference: Amendment introduced by Riggs, R-CA.; Bill HR 6 ; vote number 1998-133 on May 6, 1998

[noretreatnosurrender]

1. I remember all too well

The Clintons use people and when they are no longer of value to them they jettison them like they change their clothes.

[Jitter65]

2. I guess it is lost on people that he did nominate her??? Everyone acts in context of their times

and pressures. Only Bill and Hillary Clinton are not afforded the luxury of being mistaken, human. "Bernie has always supported Affirmative Action." Can anyone show me where either Bill or Hillary Clinton did not support Affirmative Action?