Bernard Kerik Nov 6, 2009
Clinton also the nomination of his choice for assistant attorney general, Lani Guinier, because he deemed her views on the empowerment of African Americans too radical. Share. (Salon)
Highlights of the Boston Book Festival Oct 23, 2009
The Obama Year Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Featuring: Michael E. Porter, David Gergen, Jack Beatty, Lani Guinier. Thrillers and Killers Boston Public Library Public Reading Room, 4 p.m. Featuring: Stephen Carter, Andre Dubus III, Joseph Finder. (Boston Globe)
Boston Book Festival features 90 authors Oct 18, 2009
Harvard professors Lani Guinier and Michael Porter, Atlantic senior editor Jack Beatty, and political pundit David Gergen will assess President Obama s record. Other panels will focus on historical novels set in and around Boston, star athletes, memoirs, thrillers, and cutting-edge fiction. (Boston Globe)
NYT: White House to shift civil rights efforts Sep 1, 2009
And former President Bill Clinton withdrew his first nominee to lead the division, Lani Guinier, after her writings about racial quotas were criticized. But such dust-ups were minor when compared with sweeping changes at the division under the Bush administration, longtime career civil rights lawyers say. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Scene around the Vineyard Aug 29, 2009
Guests included Carol Fulp, Barbara Lee, Ron Homer, Wayne Budd, Lani Guinier, Charles Ogletree, Charles Stith and Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith. Originally scheduled for last night, the event was moved up because the governor and others were returning to Boston for the funeral today of Ted Kennedy. (Boston Globe)
The action begins on the Vineyard Aug 21, 2009
The guest list for the fancy affair included the likes of Vernon Jordan, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, talk-show host Wendy Williams, NAACP president Ben Jealous, Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier, writer Jill Nelson, comedian Larry David, Essence editor Angela Burt-Murray, and former PBS correspondent Charlene Hunter-Gault. Other VIPs mentioned as possible guests included Beyonc. (Boston Globe)
Supreme Sonia: Fear What She Will Do Outside of the Court, Not Inside Aug 18, 2009
Radical leftist professor Lani Guinier was Clinton's first choice to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Conservative opposition to confirmation of a Quota Queen prevailed, and Guinier withdrew to avoid the embarrassment of being voted down. (Townhall.com)
Is Martha’s Vineyard one place where race isn’t an issue? Aug 15, 2009
When Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier s family purchased a nearby home in 1972, her white mother conducted the transaction; the seller didn t meet her black father until the family moved in. Today, the island, like society itself, is more open and more people of color have the means to move beyond the cottage colonies that formed the community s first foothold here. (Boston Globe)
Gates had earlier racial run-in Jul 25, 2009
"There are people who talk about President Obama being a three-dimensional chess player, operating on a lot of levels at once, and that's a good description of Skip," says fellow Harvard professor Lani Guinier, using the nickname Gates has had since childhood. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Race)
A Quota Queen for the Court Jun 6, 2009
Like Lani Guinier, the Clinton appointee rejected for reverse racism, Sonia Sotomayor is a quota queen. She believes in, preaches and practices race-based justice. (Human Events Online)
NYT: Sotomayors focus on race may be hurdle May 30, 2009
Racial quotas'Gary Marx, executive director of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network, said he saw a playbook for the campaign against Judge Sotomayor in the successful attacks on Lani Guinier, whose 1993 nomination to a top Justice Department post was withdrawn after an outcry over her writings arguing for alternative voting systems intended to better represent minorities. We will see racial quotas become a much bigger issue than they might have been had another nominee been... (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
What Are Sotomayor's Views on Abortion? May 29, 2009
" Legal experts say it is too soon to tell how she may vote on a case that resurrects the Roe v. Wade discussion. "I don't think she's written anything from which people can draw global conclusions," said Lani Guinier, a professor of law at Harvard University. "She's a very careful judge, so you can't predict how she would [rule on a case] unless she has facts. " In a CNN poll, . But the margin of support has been slim on the Support Court, with recent rulings decided by a 5-4 majority. 1 | |... (ABC News)
Obama Stumps GOP With Sotomayor May 27, 2009
diminished respect in the world". To call Cheney contemptuous or lacking in respect for responding to the relentless drumbeat from the White House is way off base. I could cede your point if the criticism were more measured, but the savaging of the anti-terrorism measures enacted by Bush/Cheney (with bipartisan approval by Congress) merits a response. Cheney is the only Republican since Inauguration Day offering a serious response to scathing criticism of "the past eight years" that is... (Slate)
