The U.S. Supreme Court will decide before summer the most important education civil rights case since Brown v.

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In order to preserve, not only his presidency, but more significantly, to defeat the civil rights case against him.

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The work was not the business of the nation, but it was the distraction of self-preservation in the civil rights case.

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It comes to your attention from Ms. Lewinsky that she has a subpoena in a civil rights case against the President.

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It was done with the intent that the truth and evidence would be suppressed in a civil rights case pending against him.

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The president himself brought Ms. Currie into the civil rights case as a corroborating witness when he repeatedly used her name in the deposition.

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He had obstructed the administration of justice before the United States district court in a civil rights case and before the federal grand jury.

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It becomes clear that she understands the significance of these gifts, their evidentiary value in the civil rights case, and the fact that they're under subpoena.

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The answer is, that he was willing to obstruct, impede justice by improperly influencing a witness in order to protect himself in a civil rights case.

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He has denied each element of the obstruction of justice charges, including this allegation, that he encouraged a scheme to conceal evidence in a civil rights case.

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In that landmark 1964 civil rights case, the Court ruled that Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to bar discrimination by private businesses such as hotels and restaurants.

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At that point, the wheels of obstruction started rolling and they did not stop until the president successfully blocked the truth from coming out in the civil rights case.

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You will see this pattern of telephone calls repeated, and generated at any point in time when it appears that the truth may be told in the civil rights case.

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If the president can simply destroy Monica Lewinsky's credibility in public and before the grand jury, then he will escape the consequences for his false statements under oath and the obstruction in the civil rights case.

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And it became clear that the president had no intention of making his relationship with a subordinate federal employee an issue in that civil rights case, no matter what the federal courts told him he needed to answer.

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This had to be startling news to the president, because if the truth about his relationship with a subordinate employee were known, the civil rights case against him would be strengthened and it might have totally changed the outcome.

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In this case, at every turn, he used whatever means available to evade the truth, destroy evidence, tamper with witnesses, and any other actions required to prevent evidence coming forth in the civil rights case that would prove a truth contrary to the president's interest.

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The answer is the president knew he had to keep Monica Lewinsky on the team and he is willing to take more risk so that she would continue to be a part of the conspiracy to obstruct the legitimate functions of the federal court in the civil rights case.

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That policy is driven by the same concerns that prompted the Supreme Court in a civil rights-era case, NAACP v.

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Meanwhile, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) has called for the U.S. Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the case to determine if this was a hate crime and, if so, to prosecute the young men under federal hate crime laws.

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The last time civil rights lawyers in the Handshu case filed a motion like this was in November 2005.

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Why not a court case, or a boycott, as in the case of the civil-rights movement something that challenged existing law?

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Local civil rights activists were looking for a test case to challenge the bus segregation laws, and that spring lawyers considered having Ms Colvin sue the bus company.

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"This is a case about civil liberties and human rights, " he said.

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Federal prosecutors are considering taking on the case as a possible civil-rights violation, and the family have a civil claim against the government for excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials.

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And with all due respect, the foundation of the house of civil rights was never at the core of the Jones case.

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Still, the civil rights leader lauded authorities for filing charges in the case that effectively asserted the victims were targeted due to their race.

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Crist made his name in state politics by championing civil rights, opposing federal meddling in the Terri Schiavo case, and, as governor, making the environment a signature issue.

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For years before her arrest, Mrs Parks had been active with local civil rights groups, which were looking for a test case to fight the city's segregation laws.

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