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Article: Sordid world of political spoils.(Commentary)(Forum)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 8, 1996
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Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are not, politically speaking, Friends of Bill, but the two Supreme Court Justices and the president are working on parallel tracks to preserve, protect, and defend the spoils system that Tammany Hall brought to its finest flower.
In the Supreme Court term just ended, a disgruntled Kansas trash hauler and an equally disgruntled Illinois tow truck operator persuaded seven justices that they had been wrongfully shut out of city contract work because they were politically incorrect. Justices Scalia and Thomas, in dissent, maintained that the Wabaunsee County (Kansas) commissioners and the city of Northlake (Illinois) were, in each ...