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Black Politicos Upset Over Guinier Flap
WASHINGTON (AP)'? In a
move that enraged the civil-rights
community. President Clinton
withdrew the nomination of Lani
Guinier, a friend of two decades, as
his civil rights enforcer.
"Clinton said some of her
controversial views would have
been "very difficult to defend"
against Senate critics.
Rep. Kweisi Mfume, chair
man of the Congressional Black
Caucus, called the move "a giant
*tep backward." ? ?
"Fairness and due process
were abandoned for political expe
diency." the Maryland Democrat
said.
Clinton announced his deci
sion after a 75-minute Oval Office
meeting with Guinier, who he said
was "surprised that I felt the way 1
did." Attorney General Janet Reno,
who had staunchly supported
Guinier. attended the meeting
? briefly^- ? ? ? ? = ? ? ? -
Guinier made no immediate
statement. Her husband. Temple
University communications Profes
sor Nolan Bowie, said Guinier
remained in Washington, but s"he
checked out of her hotel.
~ ~ Clinton said he understood
the anger civil rights leaders would
feel and vowed to consult them as
he sought a new nominee, saying he
hoped to make a decision within
several days. But civil rights
artivkK who lambasted Clinton said
they had no candidates.
Clinton's announcement
ended days of news reports that he
was going to abandon Guinier. The
speculation became so intense that
Guinier even made an extraordinary
televised plea for a Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing that would let
her defend herself against critics
who she said "distorted" her acade
mic writings to make her views
appear radical.
At the same time, civil rights
leaders escalated their campaign to
President Clinton j
save the nomination. Mfume pub
licly warned Clinton that dropping
Guinier would cost him the caucus'
political support on a number of
issues, and noted that the president
will need their votes to pass his pro
grams. The caucus has 40 members,
39 of them in the House that passed
Clinton's budget package last week
byjusLsix votes.
After Clinton announced his
decision in a brief, televised news
conference, Mfume said in an inter
view that the Black Caucus "must
now reassess and reevaluate its rela
tionship and role with this adminis
tration into the future."
Clinton has been trying to
move to a more centrist position
after sliding to a 36 percent approval
rating in some polls, but he main*
tained that he abandoned the nomi
nation ovrr pripr iple. not politics.
Guinier, he said, had views
that "clearly lend themselves to
interpretations that do not represent ~
the views that I expressed on civil
rights during my campaign."
. ' He singled out her article in
the March J 991 Michigan Law
Review as unacceptable, saying it
"seemed to be arguing for principles
of proportional representation in
minority veto as general remedies
that I think are inappropriate as gen
eral remedies and anti -democratic
aI? veiy difficult to defend. " ,.v
Lani Guinier ?
Guinier. a 43-year-old Uni
versity of Pennsylvania law profes- .
sor who attended Yale University
Law School with the Clintons, was
attacked as a "quota queen" with
far-out views about the federal Vot
ing Rights Act. The initial criticism
came from conserv ative activists but
Leadership Counc i I an?-a number of
Senate Democrats.
Roger Wilkins, a close friend
of Guinier's and a former Justice
Department official, said: "Lani
Guinier . . . was nibbled to death by
cowardly, anonymous White House
aides."
Patricia Ireland, president of the
National Organization for Women,
told a Bloomiftgton. Ind., audience
that the nomination was blocked
because Guinier was "willing to
speak out articulately, persuasively
and effectively against the exclusion
of African Americans and women
from the position of power."
When Clinton nominated her in
late April, he said, he knew her
work as a c+v-il rights litigator ?
including her 7 1/2 years leading the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educa
tion Fund's voting rights project in
the 1980s. However, he said, he was
not familiar with her academic wrif
ings of the past five years.
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