Illegal services: when Congress passed restrictions on the Legal Services Corporation, the LSC called in its lawyers.

From: National Review | Date: March 24, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Republicans were instrumental in restoring $109 million in funding for the Legal Services Corp, which gives legal assistance to the indigent. Reforms to the LSC's charter placed restrictions on actions its attorneys could take, but the program should have been eliminated.

'THERE has been overheated rhetoric from those who want to kill legal services for the poor. . . . There have been abuses; we all know that. . . . That is all in the past." So spoke, in July 1996, Republican Congressman Jim Ramstad of Minnesota, one of 56 Republicans whose votes enabled the Democratic minority to ...

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