
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 1, 1994                   TAG: 9402010132
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

ATTACKS BEGIN BEFORE CIVIL RIGHTS CHIEF NAMED

Conservatives opened fire Monday on Deval Patrick, President Clinton's expected choice as chief civil rights enforcer, even before the 37-year-old Boston lawyer was nominated as an assistant attorney general.

"Patrick appears to be a `stealth Guinier,' " said Clint Bolick, litigation director of the conservative Institute for Justice. "He has no paper trail, but is part of the same pro-quota chorus that produced Lani Guinier."

Bolick led the conservative charge against Guinier. His article in The Wall Street Journal a day after her nomination was headlined, "Clinton's Quota Queen," a tag Republican senators repeated in attacking Guinier.

Bolick's broadside against Patrick came a day before Clinton was expected to announce Patrick's nomination.

- Associated Press

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