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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 16,1991

After bitter fight, new justice says, ‘We must move forward’

WASHINGTON (AP) Clarence Thomas, saying it is “time to put these things behind us,” will take his seat on the Supreme Court positioned to help shape the nation’s laws for decades to come. His contentious confirmation battle left supporters today demanding a change in the process. “I’d like to thank America,” Thomas said after the Senate’s 5248 confirmation vote Tuesday •light. “NO MATTER HOW difficult or painful, this is a time for healing in our country,” he said. “We have to put these things behind us. We have to go forward.” The 43-year-old Thomas is likely to be sworn in Monday and assume the court’s ninth seat. He won confirmation only after one of the nastiest confirmation fights in American history, one that his backers called “a search and destroy mission” by Thomas opponents. During weekend hearings on the allegation Thomas sexually harassed a former aide, President Bush said he would be suggesting ways to change the process. “I THINK WHEN it’s over I owe the American people my suggestions as to how to improve this process, and I will do my level best,” said the president. “We definitely have to change the process,” Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana, one of 11 Democrats who voted in favor of the Thomas nomination, told CBS today. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a leader of the fight for Thomas on

Weliever resigns post with

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Aides to Gov. Evan Bayh say he is in the : “final stages” of selecting a successor to John Weliever, who resigned as executive director of the Hoosier Lottery. ! Weliever, who guided the lottery ' through rough waters following a

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Justice Thomas: Wants to change the process

the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the process “just lousy.” In an interview on ABC, Hatch blamed “a dishonest senator on the committee and his staff” who, he said, leaked the affidavit in which Anita Hill alleged she was the victim of sexual harassment by Thomas. The Utah senator said he had no idea who was responsible for the leak. HATCH AND Breaux criticized the involvement of “special interest

sex scandal involving his predecessor, told The Associated Press he was leaving state government to devote more time to his business. His family owns two automobile dealerships in central Indiana and is negotiating the purchase of a third. “I HAD LEFT THE family business two years and eight months ago with the idea of taking a one-year sabbatical from the

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groups in the process.” Breaux said they engaged in “a search and destroy mission where they go out and try to find one incident (to discredit a nominee)... We have to change that.” Thomas will take his seat on the court in time to join the review of a heavy load of high-profile cases. Ironically for a man whose nomination was nearly lost in a swirl of allegations involving sexual harassment and X-rated movies, one of

business,” Weliever said. “From my perspective and my family’s perspective it’s time to move on.” Weliever will remain active in politics but said he has no plans to run for office. “There are certain roles in life that you’re better suited for. Being a political candidate is not necessarily a role that I believe I’m suited for,” he said. WELIEVER, WHO turns 50 on Oct. 23, said his resignation was “kind of my birthday gift to myself.” Bayh hopes to name a replacement for Weliever “in a matter of days,” press secretary Fred Nation said Tuesday evening. “We have been working for some time and now are at the short-list stage.” Bayh praised Weliever for direct-

Bill could wipe out death penalty in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Death Row at the Indiana State Prison most likely would close if a proposed federal bill to require a racial balance among those sentenced to death becomes law, two prosecutors say. Capital punishment would be abolished in Indiana, U.S. Attorney Deborah J. Daniels and Marion County Prosecutor Jeffrey Modisett said in a joint statement Tuesday. They said the Fairness in Death Sentencing Act would lead to a “quota system” for capital cases and make race not the crime committed the determining factor in seeking the death penalty.

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his first cases involves the question of prosecution of pornography customers. BUSH TELEPHONED the newest justice as soon as the confirmation vote was in. He praised the conservative black jurist as “a man of honesty, dedication and commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.” “The nation and the court benefit from having a man of principle who is sensitive to the problems and opportunities facing all Americans,” Bush said. Thomas had the support of 41 Republican and 11 Democratic senators. In the end, only three of 13 Democrats who had publicly endorsed Thomas before Hill’s harassment allegations became public changed their mind. One Democrat, Charles Robb of Virginia, had been counted undecided before. THOMAS’ SENATE supporters celebrated the victory but acknowledged it had come at an extraordinarily high cost to Thomas, to the Senate and to Hill, the former assistant who said Thomas sexually harassed her at two government jobs a decade ago. Hill, back home in Oklahoma where she teaches law, said she hoped her experience would not deter others from coming forward in cases of sexual harassment. “The issue of sexual harassment is now part of a dialogue,” she said. “I cannot tell you how many letters and cards I have received from people throughout the country who are concerned about this.

Hoosier Lottery

ing the lottery through “a difficult transition.” “His business expertise and management skills have been beneficial to the lottery and to the people of Indiana. His willingness to take time from his business career for public service is indicative of the kind of person he is,” Bayh told The Associated Press. WELIEVER, WHO has long been active in state Democratic politics, was appointed to head the Department of Administration shortly after Bayh took office in January 1989. The governor asked Weliever to take over the lottery when Jack Crawford was forced to resign just two months after launching the first game. Crawford’s longtime employee and the lottery’s personnel director, Mary Cartwright,

UNDER THE ACT, if a court district had a racial balance of 75 percent white and 25 percent black, then of every four inmates it sends to Death Row three would have to be white. “Justice should be colorblind,” Modisett said. “Race should play no part in the criminal justice system’s decision-making process.” The proposal is part of the 1991 federal crime bill. The measure was approved by the Senate and is being debated in the House. The Bush administration and the National District Attorneys Association have endorsed an alternate plan known as the Equal Jus-

New justice found a champion in ex-boss

WASHINGTON (AP) Clarence Thomas’ staunchest supporter and fiercest defender through a painful Senate confirmation battle is a patrician Missouri Republican with who gave the nominee his first job in the law. Throughout the 107 days since President Bush announced the nomination. Sen. John Danforth, a scion of the RalstonPurina food fortune, stood beside the black Supreme Court nominee who rose from poverty in Pin Point Ga. A TALL, IMPOSING grayhaired man, Danforth was the Senate quarterback for Thomas’ confirmation effort As a mentor of Thomas and a friend, the moderate Republican senator who is popular with his colleagues proved a valuable ally for the nominee. He sat by Thomas’ side during five days of Judiciary Committee hearings last month. Danforth cried foul when allegations of sexual harassment by Oklahoma law professor Anita F. Hill were leaked to reporters, forcing a one-week delay in the Senate vote. AGAIN, DANFORTH stood by his friend, helping orchestrate the Republican strategy to discredit Hill. Although he is an ordained Episcopal priest, Danforth was not above employing a no-holds-barred effort to discredit Thomas’ accuser. His office collected affidavits from people challenging her testimony and questioning her mental com-

complained that Crawford sexually harassed her on the job. Crawford later said he’d had a long love affair with Cartwright, but he denied harassing her. Cartwright was fired a month later for allegedly lying about events surrounding Crawford’s forced resignation. WELIEVER SAID he was proud of his tenure at the lottery. “I think that lotteries, in general, are always under the microscope. The lights were a little brighter under this microscope than in ordinary situations. In fact, our people had to deal with that (scandal) and continue to make headway. They did an outstanding job with that,” he said. As the lottery’s second director, Weliever guided the lottery’s development of three computerized

tice Act. DANIELS SAID IT would provide protections against discrimination during a trial. For example, it would mandate questioning of prospective jurors on their racial views and require a change of venue if a racially impartial jury could not be found in a certain area. “This would attack the root issue of possible racial bias in convicting and sentencing those charged with the death penalty and would protect individual defendants while permitting society redress for the most heinous crimes,” Daniels said. Michael L. Gradison, executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, applauds the proposed Fairness in Death Sentencing Act. THE FACT IS THAT the application of the death penalty has been outrageously racist in nature,”

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petence. Danforth suggested that Hill was suffering from delusions after her lawyers produced results of a polygraph test they said she passed. DEMOCRATS charged that Danforth and other Republicans had smeared Hill with innuendo and false charges. In a Senate speech Tuesday, Danforth said “Clarence Thomas is what America is all about. “He demonstrated strength of character which I think is extraordinary,” the senator said. Danforth attacked Thomas’ opponents, particularly liberal interest groups that tried to derail the nomination with a variety of allegations about Thomas. “THE PROCESS which we just witnessed is wrong,” he said. “The strategy of digging up dirt, the strategy of throwing dirt, the strategy of leaking affidavits doesn’t work. “If we vote against Clarence Thomas, we vote for a process which is clearly wrong,” Danforlh said. Danforth, when he was Missouri’s attorney general, gave Thomas his first job after graduation from Yale Law School. He later brought him to Washington as a Senate aide in the late 19705. Thomas later went on to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and won appointment last year to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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games Lotto Cash, Daily Three and Daily Four and its efforts to join the multi-state Lotto America game. Although lottery ticket sales have fallen short of projections $447 million instead of 5475 million Weliever said he was not disappointed. “That’s well within the range of being within the acceptable forecast,” he said.

he said. “The white people are far more likely to buy their way onto a sentence which can run the gamut from a couple of years to life, but at least they’re still living.” Gradison said the ICLU opposes the death penalty. The Bush administration and the prosecutors association also want to reduce the time condemned prisoners spend appealing their sentences. PROSECUTORS say the current process is long and unwieldy and allows prisoners to avoid a death sentence for years hy making legal challenges in their cases. Gradison, while admitting the process can be lengthy, said it shouldn’t be changed. “You’re taking a human life. And if there is any chance that there is an error then they should have the right to do that.”