Abstract

Editorials

This article presents information on various political developments in the U.S. The conservative U.S. Supreme Court majority, wrote right-wing legal advocate Clint Bolick recently, "is hanging on by the thread of a solitary appointment." U.S. President Bill Clinton nominees Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, now form a crucial dissenting bloc on matters of race and social equity. The Court's right is itself deeply divided, with a religious and libertarian minority, Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, increasingly isolated by the extremity of their rhetoric. Amid the hullabaloo over control of the presidency and the U.S. Congress, this election season brings three promising challenges to the increasingly moribund two-party system, Maine's voters appear ready to approve public financing of elections, the Supreme Court will consider eliminating all state bans against fusion, which would allow major-party candidates to accept the nomination of smaller parties.