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to civil rights problems.

Q:

Yes, this is the conjecture now that as time goes on she may prove to be the most conservative Justice.

Clark:

She'd have to go pretty far to go beyond Rehnquist. She and Rehnquist are pretty-- I read somewhere that since she's been on the Court, she has been voting with Rehnquist more frequently than [Chief Justice Warren] Burger. She has been consistently conservative on matters. I don't know what's going to happen when the abortion thing comes before the Court, because that was one of the problems she had to deal with in her confirmation hearings.

Q:

Didn't she take the position that the way that piece of legislation out in Arizona was worded, it was unconstitutional, and that's why she in effect made a pro-abortion vote?

Clark:

I'm finding it is very fascinating, the present political patterns and dynamics. And I suppose I'm looking at this pretty much the way the privileged used to look at the situation during the Roosevelt era. I'm saying-- what is this government doing to us? Now it's reversed. I was in college during the early stages of the Roosevelt administration and I looked upon that with a great deal of excitement, the use of the executive branch of the





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