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- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: Exit From The Right
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 12
- NATION
- Exit from the Right
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Conservatives lose a big vote on the court as Justice Byron
- White retires
- </p>
- <p> Long before today's powerful phalanx of Republican-nominated
- Justices began to dominate the U.S. Supreme Court and push it
- sharply to the right, Justice Byron White voted to nudge it in
- that general direction. Last Friday, after 31 years on the high
- bench, the moderate-to-conservative Kennedy appointee--a legal
- ace, Rhodes scholar and former star football player--announced
- that he would step down at the end of the court's current term
- this summer.
- </p>
- <p> The departure will have a major impact. For the first time
- in a quarter-century, Democrats will have a chance to put their
- man or woman on the court and brake the bench's conservative
- drift. White, 75, one of the original two dissenters in Roe v.
- Wade and a consistent foe of the constitutional right to
- abortion, opposed broad use of affirmative action, favored
- greater accommodation between church and state and regularly
- sided with police on law-and-order issues. President Clinton
- promptly promised to find a top notch replacement with "good
- judgment" and "a big heart."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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