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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 22, 2008

May I Be Recused?

One consequence of the Supreme Court's draconian quorum and tie-vote rules is the reluctance of the justices to disqualify themselves, if by doing so they deny the litigants a full bench for an important decision, writes Charles S. Doskow. - Focus Column

FOCUS COLUMN

By Charles S. Doskow
This article appears on Page 7

      Apartheid was the brutal racial law that governed South Africa from 1948 through the early 1990s. It condemned the majority nonwhite population of the country to discrimination and repression under the law of the state, limiting the rights of residency, travel, education, marriage and employment.
      Numerous plaintiffs have ...

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