[mwl1]

You are correct. Rules has no comparable stature in the Senate to its counterpart in the House... they are totally unalike.

[leadpenny]

Thank you. Do we even know who the previous Rules Chairman was?

[TLBSHOW]

The fires are stoked, and dissenters are marked for public execution. Consider:


The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which represents 180 traditional civil rights organizations, is urging President Bush (news - web sites) to toss away a slate of judges he has endorsed for positions on the federal bench simply on the grounds that their records have shown "deep hostility to core civil rights principles." What exactly the Leadership Council has in mind is not at hand, but we know that the conference wants an amendment to the transportation bill that would forbid racial profiling in any state. The federal government is not supposed to dictate to individual states procedures by which they seek to discourage crime. The implied reasoning here is that because more minorities are targeted by racial profiling, therefore the objective of racial profiling is to diminish the civil rights of minorities.

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We will need to watch carefully how the Bush administration comports itself on the University of Michigan question. Will the Justice Department file an amicus brief defending the right course? Or has the Leadership Conference assumed veto power on the question?

William F. Buckley Jr