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	Ralph Neas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph G. Neas (born 1946 in Brookline, Massachusetts) has been the president of People For the American Way, a prominent advocacy organization of church-state separation in the United States, since 2000.
		Neas began his career as a Republican, serving as chief counsel to Edward W. Brooke and David Durenberger.
		He was a Democratic candidate for Maryland's 8th district in the House of Representatives in 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Neas (167 words)

	Ralph Neas - SourceWatch
		Ralph G. Neas is currently president of People for the American Way.
		In 1996, Neas, a lawyer, teacher and consultant and previously a chief legislative assistant to former senators Dave Durenberger (R-MN) and Edward W. Brooke (R-MA), departed the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights after fourteen years (1981-1995) as the organization's executive director.
		In 1998, Neas was a Democratic candidate for Congress from Maryland’s 8th District (Montgomery County).
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ralph_Neas (424 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Levey Live: Q&A with Ralph Neas
		Ralph Neas: I left the Republican Party because it became the party of Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan and Ralph Reed.
		Ralph Neas: To my knowledge, there is one announced opponent for the primary, and of course I look forward to opportunities to debate the issues with him.
		Ralph Neas: I am very pleased that the Neas-Morella race has already been ranked by the Cook Political Report as one of the top 50 most competitive races in the country.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/levey/bob0421.htm (2317 words)

	People for the American Way
		Neas said the current political situation - with one party controlling the White House and Congress in spite of a narrowly divided national electorate - demonstrates why our constitutional framework was designed as a system of checks and balances.
		Neas said the timing of Lott's hearing is an indication that Senate GOP leaders are trying to set the stage to eliminate any possibility that a controversial nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court could be blocked by a filibuster later this year.
		Neas noted that the role of the filibuster has been defended in the past by a wide range of conservative and right-wing leaders and groups, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, political commentator George Will, and the Heritage Foundation.
	www.commondreams.org /news2003/0605-09.htm (620 words)

	CNN Interactive Chat Transcript - Ralph Neas: Second day of the Ashcroft hearings
		Ralph Neas: The problem Senator Feinstein has is that in the last couple of years, Senator John Ashcroft was a leader in an effort to defeat the hate crime prevention act, a bill that had strong bipartisan support in the House and Senate.
		Ralph Neas: People for the American Way was established about 20 years ago by Norman Lear, the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and a host of business, religious and civil rights leaders.
		Ralph Neas: Because of his record as the attorney general and the governor of Missouri.
	www.cnn.com /chat/transcripts/2001/01/17/neas (1390 words)

	The New Dixiecrats: Ralph Neas and John Edwards use race to divide America - SierraTimes.com
		Neas and friends are playing this kind of ugly racial politics: First is to create a public misperception that the Bush Administration's judicial nominees are right-wing extremists who want to turn back the clock on race, abortion and religion.
		Neas and Julian Bond and their fellow liberals the real heirs to Lester Maddox and Strom Thurmond and the Democrats who played the race card during the 1950s and 1960s.
		Neas and company are using the race card to inflame the opinion of fl voters in order to put pressure on Southern Democrats.
	www.sierratimes.com /02/02/27/ardj022702.htm (852 words)

	ACLJ • American Center for Law & Justice
		RALPH NEAS: Charlie, I think there would be a huge battle in the Senate, and there would be tremendous opposition across the country against a Scalia elevation.
		RALPH NEAS: Janice Rogers Brown and four others were part of a political compromise.
		RALPH NEAS: There is - there is - there is no question that on occasion, not very often, on occasion, Supreme Court precedents have been overturned.
	www.aclj.org /News/Read.aspx?ID=1730 (2476 words)

	The Daly Report: Neas takes on Armstrong Williams
		People for the American Way president Ralph Neas has thrown down the gauntlet at the feet of Armstrong Williams.
		Neas was given pretty much free reign to do as much damage to the nomination as suited his fancy.
		Before Ralph Neas can demand that Armstrong William return his payments, Neas must first return his payments from media outlets that quoted him without even a hint of a disclosure.
	www.kaydaly.com /2005/01/neas-takes-on-armstrong-williams.htm (685 words)

	[NPO] "Neas: Proposals will Hamstring Nonprofits, Silence Speech"
		Neas argues that these proposals, designed to enforce federal election law, threaten to undermine the ability of nonprofit organizations to engage in basic political advocacy and even halt voter registration drives.
		The effort spearheaded by Neas to oppose the FEC proposals is joined by liberal and conservative groups alike.
		Ralph G. Neas is president of People For the American Way and co-chair of the steering committee of the Coalition to Protect Nonprofit Advocacy.
	www.rain.org /pipermail/nonprofit/2004-May/003148.html (1587 words)

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		Though Neas has often said that he was alienated by a Republican Party that had swung towards ideological extremism, the historical record gives reason to believe that, in fact, he had rejected Republican ideals long before the Party’s Congressional takeover of 1994.
		To this end, Neas played a prime role in a pre-election initiative called “Election Protection.” The initiative was portrayed as “a nonpartisan coalition” seeking to protect the “the right of all citizens to cast a ballot on Election Day,” a description that was unquestioningly echoed by the mainstream media.
		Neas had previously set the tone for the perceptibly partisan spirit of the Election Protection campaign in a 2003 article for Alternet.org, titled “Jim Crow is Alive and Well.” In that piece, Neas darkly warned that politicians determined to maintain their hold on power—an unmistakable reference to Republicans—were gearing up to suppress voters.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /printindividualProfile.asp?indid=838 (1401 words)

	COPA: Throwing out the good with the bad \| Perspectives \| CNET News.com
		Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, says the Supreme Court should strike down the overly broad Child Online Protection Act, which, he says, effectively squelches legitimate content in the name of shielding minors.
		Ralph G. Neas is president of the People For the American Way Foundation, which has filed an amicus brief that supports a lower-court ruling preventing COPA from being enforced.
		Neas served as chief legislative aide to U.S. Senators Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., and David Durenberger, R-Minn. From 1981 through 1995, Neas was executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
	news.com.com /2010-1071-281574.html (807 words)

	#10: Ralph Neas \| Progressive U
		According to Goldberg, Neas, President of the People for the American Way, is screwing up America, because he opposes the Boy Scouts' antigay agenda and because he worked against the nomination of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
		Ralph Neas, President of PAW, came to PAW after an unsuccessful run for Congress from Maryland.
		From Goldberg 77's point of view, Neas and PFAW have done very little to defeat the overwhelmingly conservative dominance of every meaningful agency of American life, including its special target, the judiciary.
	www.progressiveu.org /162938-10-ralph-neas (548 words)

	Ralph G. Neas
		Ralph G. Neas, a native of Brookline, Massachusetts, earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
		Ralph has taught at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Iowa Law School, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
		Ralph G. Neas, president of People for the American Way, noted that conservatives complained when anyone questioned the influence of faith during the recent confirmation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
	www.fairness.com /resources/relation?relation_id=19275 (874 words)

	JCN and Wendy Long: Not This Time, Mr. Neas!
		In 1987, Ralph Neas, President of People For the American Way, chaired the successful bipartisan effort by the 300-organization Block Bork Coalition to block the confirmation of Robert Bork, then a federal appellate judge, to become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
		Ralph IS a darling of the biased, leftist media.
		But, it is not plausibly deniable that Judge Alito is one of the best and, as usual, Wendy provided a material fact that should be generally known and exposes the anti-Alitoists as the extremists as it becomes known: that a Democrat-controlled Senate unanimously confirmed Judge Alito as a federal appellate judge.
	www.michnews.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/284/11214/printer (504 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Ralph Neas's official biography describes him as the "101st Senator," from an admiring comment by Teddy Kennedy.
		Neas has issued new directives from his command center at the People for the American Way.
		Neas, Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy and Majority Leader Tom Daschle would have us believe that there is nothing unusual about the Democrats' treatment of Mr.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=105001970 (881 words)

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		Not coincidentally, Neas' decision to renounce the GOP in the mid-1990s dovetailed with the 1994 ascendance of a Republican Congressional majority with the capacity to act on its platform.
		Though a nominal Republican at the time, Neas, who has a law degree from the University of Chicago and has taught law at several elite colleges, spearheaded the famously malicious 1987 activist campaign to torpedo the Reagan administration's nominee for the Supreme Court, Robert Bork.
		In parallel with denigrating such Bush appointees as Attorney General John Ashcroft, Neas waged a bitter activist campaign against the President's proposal to cut taxes, maintaining that high taxes were necessary to underwrite the "progressive" social legislation that Neas supports.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=838 (1399 words)

	Brendan Nyhan: Ralph Neas defines "constitutional crisis" down
		In a New York Times report on preparations for the upcoming Supreme Court battle, Ralph Neas, the president of People for the American Way, is quoted making this irresponsible statement:
		[Neas] declared that his group was not "looking for a fight" with Mr.
		First, it's ridiculous to say Neas is not "looking for a fight" with the White House.
	www.brendan-nyhan.com /blog/2005/07/ralph_neas_defi.html (738 words)

	CNN.com - Defeated judge appointee on the docket - September 6, 2002
		Ralph Neas with the group People for the America Way and former Florida Rep. Bill McCollum step into the "Crossfire" with hosts Robert Novak and Paul Begala.
		Today was a great victory for the American people because the Senate Judiciary Committee defeated a right-wing ideologue who would have turned back the clock on civil rights, consumer rights, the environment, and also reproductive rights.
		NEAS: No, that's why I made this point, and, really, the main point was that the committee proved with documentation that this nominee, repeatedly, whenever her ideology clashed with the law, tried to change the law, remake the law.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/06/cf.crossfire (602 words)

	Cracking the Alito Codebook
		Ralph Neas points out that consideration of a Supreme Court nomination is one of the most important and far-reaching duties of the Senate.
		The focus must be not on spin generated by Alito's right-wing supporters, but on the substance of the nominee's views and credibility, especially in filling the vacancy created by the resignation of mainstream conservative Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
		Ralph G. Neas is president of People For the American Way.
	www.apfn.net /messageboard/01-10-06/discussion.cgi.10.html (1104 words)

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		CBN.com – WASHINGTON - Ralph Neas of People for the American Way said after reviewing some of John Roberts' writings, he is convinced that Roberts is a pawn of the right wing, and he is not fit to be a Supreme Court justice.
		Neas remarked, “In memo after memo, Roberts demonstrated hostility to the laws and remedies to protect the fundamental rights and liberties of all Americans.”
		Neas accuses Roberts of trying to turn back the clock on years of civil rights advances while he was an advisor to the Reagan administration during the 1980s.
	www.cbn.com /cbnnews/news/050824e.asp (407 words)

	Kay R. Daly on Election 2004 on National Review Online
		Lest you believe that this is yet another dismissible leftist, bear in mind that Neas is responsible for the strategy behind the defeat of Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court and the subsequent battle against Clarence Thomas.
		The election of John Kerry is critical to Ralph Neas and his ilk so that they can stack the bench and remake the culture.
		When Neas isn't litigating to block minority children from participating in school-choice voucher programs, he is in the courtroom trying to make the Internet a safe haven for pornographers and pedophiles.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/daly200410280754.asp (840 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Bush Taps Conservative Appeals Court Judge John Roberts For Supreme Court
		RALPH NEAS: Amy, we were extremely disappointed that the President didn't name someone in the mode of Sandra Day O'Connor, a mainstream conservative who had been approved unanimously in 1981.
		RALPH NEAS: Well, Senator Lieberman clarified his remarks last night, and he wants to see what's going to happen during the hearings.
		And I agree with Ralph that we need to have a national seminar about the meaning of the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court, and I think that we can't leave out young people.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/07/20/1415238 (5956 words)

	Media Matters - W. Va. newspaper's signed editorial falsely stated PFAW president Neas attacked "evil ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Johanna Maurice, editorial page editor of the Charleston Daily Mail of West Virginia, falsely suggested that Ralph G. Neas, president of the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way (PFAW), attacked the religious right as "evil churchgoers" for attempting to move the Supreme Court to the right.
		"The religious right already controls the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives," Ralph G. Neas, president of People For, as the group is known in Washington and Hollywood circles, said in a speech as the awards ceremony began.
		Therefore those are actually the words of the Johanna Maurice, not Ralph Neas.
	mediamatters.org /items/200601230004 (1067 words)

	What might liberals look for in a nominee? - Tucker - MSNBC.com
		NEAS: He, as I was about to say, would have to have a commitment to equal opportunity under the law He or she would have to have a commitment to privacy, to protecting clean water and clean air, to reproductive rights.
		NEAS: Tucker, we would look at the nominee's public record. We would look at all of the issues and his judicial philosophy.
		NEAS: Tucker, I have mentioned Sandra Day O'Connor, because she is safely ensconced on the court. And I would love it if there was a possibility to get a Reagan conservative like Sandra Day O'Connor to be chief justice.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8432092 (748 words)

	Stakes High In Judicial Showdown, Weekly Standard: Supreme Court At Stake In Filibuster Fight - CBS News
		Neas: [We're] studying his record and his record is one that we have a number of people taking a very close look at.
		But the left doesn't want any of them to ascend to the Court, even as a replacement for one of the five generally conservative judges, much less for one of the four generally liberal judges.
		Both Aron and Neas concede that all of the Bush nominees have majority support.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/15/opinion/main688489_page3.shtml (553 words)

	Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
		Using the coalition of leftist organizations brought together through years of trench warfare over judicial nominations and a database of attorneys, Neas is working to successfully accuse Republicans of suppressing voters.
		In typical Ralph Neas fashion, he has sent out a missive to the media describing the lofty and noble goals of the program.
		By sending out these lengthy tomes, Neas not only satisfies his own ego-reward need, but also positions himself as the go-to guy for all reporters to get their obligatory quotes for the avalanche of election-fraud stories to come.
	fairjudiciary.com /cfj_contents/columns/bench.php (195 words)

	Ralph Neas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) from 1981 to 1995, and chairman of the Block Bork Coalition in 1987, which help to block Robert Bork's appointment to the US Supreme Court.
		Neas was an unsuccessful candidate for the US House 8th Maryland district, 1998.
		Since 2000 he has served as President of the liberal activist organization People for the American Way.
	www.nndb.com /people/545/000099248 (101 words)

	Roger Clegg on "Affirmative Action" & Supreme Court on National Review Online
		There are two ways to handle this sort of drivel: The first is to say that a person’s policy preferences are not the same thing as a person’s judicial philosophy, and that only the latter ought to matter to the Senate.
		It is about whether the government should determine the true worth of all jobs, and then adjust pay scales at the point of a gun barrel whenever a male-dominated job (truck drivers) gets higher wages than a female-dominated job (paralegals) that the bureaucrats have determined to have the same social worth.
		The trouble for Ralph Neas is that neither one of these kinds of affirmative action — which many Americans probably think of when they hear the phrase — is controversial anymore.
	www.nationalreview.com /clegg/clegg200508260814.asp (696 words)

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