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