Bum nominations hard to avoid, history shows Nov 21, 2008
A few months later, Clinton jettisoned the nomination of old friend Lani Guinier as an assistant attorney general after critics said her writings were too liberal. "I had not read her writings. In retrospect, I wish I had," Clinton said. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Obama Wants Applicants' Web-Posting Past Nov 15, 2008
These and other questions seem to represent Obama's plan to avoid the the Lani Guinier Effect. President Clinton appointed as assistant attorney general, and then was forced to withdraw her nomination in the face of severe criticism. (CBS News)
Lani Guinier visits UMKC Oct 28, 2008
Media Credit: Lani Guinier gave the Rosa Parks speech in the Law School courtroom. Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier is no stranger to being involved. (University News, MO)
Senate Is Gateway to Obama's "Change" Oct 23, 2008
Look for clones of Lani Guinier, the 1993 Clinton nominee for the civil rights post at the Justice Department, a hard-left African-American who wrote that she did not regard conservative blacks as authentic. Guinier s replacement, equally radical, was Deval Patrick, now governor of Massachusetts and a front-runner for Attorney-General. (Human Events Online)
Funny business at City Hall Sep 18, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Activists yearn for 'true liberal' justice Jul 21, 2008
Harvard law professor Lani Guinier hopes to get scholars, as well as judges, to rethink the role of a Supreme Court justice, a role she describes as "the justice as a teacher in a national seminar, an educator.". "They're not just making laws and delivering those tablets from Mount Olympus," Guinier said. (Boston Globe)
Obama sells out to politics Jun 4, 2008
From the nomination of Lani Guinier to Clinton's promise to allow gays to serve openly in the military, it was always the same story with the master politician: Now you see it, now you don't. Long gone is Obama's admirable rhetoric about how he could no more disown his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., and implicitly his now-former church, than he could disown his own grandmother. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
Did Affirmative Action Really Hinder Clarence Thomas? May 31, 2008
Lovida and William Coleman, for instance, are the children of William Coleman, Jr., who served as secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford and is now senior counsel at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. Lani Guinier grew up in New York, the daughter of a lawyer and a teacher, and went to Radcliffe College. The father of Lila Coleburn (YLS 1973) was a scientist for NASA; the father of Wendy Samuel was a college professor. (Law.com)
Geraldine Ferraro calls Obama 'sexist'; may notvote for him in election... May 21, 2008
Geraldine Ferraro, calling Barack Obama "sexist," may not back him : Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times. Might fully one-third of the six surviving Democratic vice presidential nominees end up opposing their party's national ticket this November. (The Drudge Report)
Guinier talk touches on education, race issues May 8, 2008
Media Credit: Angela EvancieLani Guinier stresses the value of diversity and the need to reverse the mentality of higher education while delivering this year's John Hamilton Fulton Lecture on April 30 in Mead Chapel. "Lani Guinier is an idea-woman who does not shrink from controversy," said President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz in introducing this year's John Hamilton Fulton Lecturer. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Don't Elevate Me, Please! Mar 25, 2008
Don't elevate me, Barack. - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
Age matters when we look at race Mar 24, 2008
But that was one of the best things about the speech the fact that Obama's treatment of Wright bore no resemblance to the way in which Bill Clinton in 1993 dumped his nominee for a key Justice Department post, old law school chum Lani Guinier, after conservatives labeled her a quota queen. That episode taught us more about Clinton than it did Guinier. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
Post the First Comment Mar 22, 2008
The College announced this week that Harvard University Law Professor Lani Guinier will give the John Hamilton Fulton Lecture in the Liberal Arts on Wednesday, April 30 in Mead Chapel at 8 p.m. Guinier, who became the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School in 1998 and now serves as the institution's Bennet Boskey Professor of Law, will draw from her forthcoming book to address issues of fairness in higher education for the lecture. "I think she's raising... (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Black, white & gray Mar 20, 2008
Unlike what the Clintons did to Lani Guinier, responding to her radical racial ideas by throwing her under the bus, Obama went to great pains to honor the human dimension of his relationship with his politically threatening "old uncle," as he calls him. Today in Opinion. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
The First Rule of Obama? Mar 15, 2008
Obama's Rules: "Void if controversial" - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine. Morekausfilescolumns. (Slate)
Lewis to cast ballot for Obama Feb 28, 2008
Welfare reform, the growth of black imprisonment, and the public abandonment of progressive African-Americans like Lani Guinier are some of the most memorable racial disappointments of those years. 1. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Camp Clinton's ills Feb 12, 2008
Remember Lani Guinier, a law school chum of the Clintons who was nominated for a key position at the Justice Department but had her nomination withdrawn after Republicans raised concerns about her views on affirmative action and racial redistricting. The latest casualty is Patti Solis Doyle, who was until recently the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's presidential quest. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
US needle policy hurts AIDS sufferers Feb 7, 2008
As law professor Lani Guinier noted, America's minority communities often serve as "the canary in the coal mine" for social maladies. Why would health problems facing these communities not eventually impact each and every neighborhood. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A Reason to Vote Hillary Feb 6, 2008
One reason to vote for Hillary. - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
Obama Beats ... Jesse Jackson Jan 28, 2008
- By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine. Morekausfilescolumns. (Slate)
FEC Fight Rife With Symbolism Jan 15, 2008
Half a decade later, Republicans made political hay over the nomination of quota queen Lani Guinier, President Bill Clinton s doomed pick for assistant attorney general. . (Roll Call)
Hillary Clinton's gift of gall Nov 6, 2007
If she were merely some cliched version of a women's rights advocate, she never could have so effortlessly blown off Marian Wright Edelman and Lani Guinier when Bill first got in, or played the Fury with Bill's cupcakes during the campaign. She was always kind enough to let Bill hide behind her skirts when he got in trouble with women. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Preseason warm-up Aug 30, 2007
Among them: longtime Dem fund-raiser Alan Solomont, Harvard Law profs Bob Mnookin and Lani Guinier, and John Hancock's Carol Fulp. Caroline Kennedy dropped by with her three teenage children, Rose, Tatiana, and John, and former Pennsylvania senator Harris Wofford, who served as a civil rights adviser to President Kennedy, was also in the house. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Academia has '08 cash clout Aug 23, 2007
Law school luminaries Laurence Tribe, Charles Ogletree, and Lani Guinier have each lavished the maximum primary donation of $2,300 on Obama, while their colleague Alan Dershowitz gave $1,000 to Clinton. When donations from seven other Boston-area universities and colleges, plus the University of Massachusetts system, are added, individuals gave about $462,000 in the first half of the year, with 86 percent going to Democrats, according to an analysis provided to the Globe yesterday. (Boston Globe -- Nation)
Mass. appeal May 6, 2007
Two well-known ones, constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe and former civil rights lawyer for the Justice Department, Lani Guinier, each gave $2,300, the maximum individual contribution. Clinton collected about $22,000 from the Harvard community, including $1,000 from author and law school professor Alan Dershowitz. (Boston Globe)
Native vs. immigrant: Issue resonates for blacks May 1, 2007
An issue at HarvardThe issue of native vs. immigrant black Americans took hold at Harvard in 2004, when professors Henry Louis Gates and Lani Guinier pointed out at a black alumni reunion that a majority of attendees were of African or Caribbean origin. Gates and Guinier cited demographic information in the "Black Guide to Life at Harvard," a survey of 70 percent of black undergraduates published by the BSA.. (MSNBC -- Race)
More Immigrants Among Blacks at U.S. Colleges May 1, 2007
The issue of native vs. immigrant blacks took hold at Harvard in 2004, when professors Henry Louis Gates and Lani Guinier pointed out at a black alumni reunion that a majority of attendees were of African or Caribbean origin. Gates and Guinier cited demographic information in the "Black Guide to Life at Harvard," a survey of 70 percent of black undergraduates published by the BSA.. (Newsmax)
Op-Ed: Don Imus, the good-natured racist Apr 11, 2007
" But rest assured, the Imus crew has plenty of kike, wetback, mick, spick, dago, Jap, Chink, redneck and unprintable Catholic priest jokes too. Not to mention the rabid homophobia and occasional Islamophobia. The Rev. Al Sharpton, the NAACP, NOW the whole civil and women's rights establishment are up in arms, and they should be. Imus' remarks were racist, offensive and, given that these athletes are not fair targets, out of bounds. There is no excuse for what he said. But there's also no basis... (Los Angeles Times)
Invisible 'model minority' Mar 20, 2007
That was my reaction in 2004 after black Harvard law professor Lani Guinier and Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of Harvard's African-American studies department, stirred a black Harvard alumni reunion with questions about precisely where the university's new black students were coming from. About 8 percent, or 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were black, they said, but somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of black undergraduates were "West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or... (Washington Times, DC)
Elite schools favor black migrants, study says Mar 7, 2007
Black American scholars such as Henry Louis Gates and Lani Guinier, two Harvard University professors, have said white educators are skirting long-held missions to resolve historic wrongs against native black Americans by enrolling immigrants who look like them. In an interview, Guinier said the chasm has less to do with immigrants and more to do with admissions officers who rely on tests that wealthier students, including black immigrants, can afford to prepare for. (San Francisco Chronicle)
African-American solidarity: Fact or fiction? Feb 25, 2007
BRONWEN ROBERTS/YH Lani Guinier, LAW 74, brought up various issues facing black America today on Tues ... Ranging from topics such as education reform to phony leaders, NPR journalist Juan Williams debated Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier, LAW 74, eliciting the audiences approval and disapproval in quick succession. (Yale Herald, CT)
Hillary Clinton Jan 23, 2007
Lani Guinier wrote mordantly in the Times Magazine about encountering Hillary in the West Wing at a time when her nomination to head the civil-rights division of the Justice Department was beginning to look doomed: Hillary, whom she d known since law school, had breezed by with a casual Hi, kiddo, announcing that she was late for lunch. Then, there is the tale of Michael Lerner, who is the editor of the magazine Tikkun and the inventor of the politics of meaning, which seeks to meld progressive... (New Yorker)
Speaker: Others' actions made MLKs legacy possible Jan 14, 2007
Sometimes we confuse leadership with the individual, said civil rights expert Lani Guinier, addressing the 31st annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards Luncheon, held at the Interstate Center ... Harvard professor and civil rights expert Lani Guinier speaks at the 31st annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards Luncheon at the Interstate Center in Bloomington on Saturday afternoon (Jan. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
