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===Legal Services Corporation===

===Legal Services Corporation===

Hillary Clinton was appointed by President [[Jimmy Carter]] to head the controversial [[Public defender|Legal Services Corporation]] (LSC) in 1978 and remained on the Board until 1983. <ref>Boehm, Kenneth F. (February 28, 2002).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20080617132548/http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=225 "Thwarting the will of Congress: How the Legal Services Corporation evaded, diluted, and ignored reform, testimony of Kenneth F. Boehm before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, House Judiciary Committee, U. S. Congress"].  National Legal and Policy Center website.  Retrieved from June 17, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>

Hillary Clinton was appointed by President [[Jimmy Carter]] to head the controversial [[Public defender|Legal Services Corporation]] (LSC) in 1978 and remained on the Board until 1983. <ref>Boehm, Kenneth F. (February 28, 2002).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20080617132548/http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=225 "Thwarting the will of Congress: How the Legal Services Corporation evaded, diluted, and ignored reform, testimony of Kenneth F. Boehm before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, House Judiciary Committee, U. S. Congress"].  National Legal and Policy Center website.  Retrieved from June 17, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>

Under Hillary Clinton's leadership, the LSC began moving away from its legislated task of providing poor people with free lawyers and began an [[activist]] agenda to influence [[public policy]] through [[class action]] lawsuits. One case involved bringing lawsuits to force New York's Transit Authority to hire [[heroin]] addicts. The LSC also violated its own rules by organizing political campaigns against a state referendum and against [[Ronald Reagan]]. <ref>Michael Barone , [http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone070899.asp ''Taking Hillary seriously], ''Jewish World Review'', July 8, 1999. </ref>

Under Hillary Clinton's leadership, the LSC began moving away from its legislated task of providing poor people with free lawyers and began an [[activist]] agenda to influence [[public policy]] through [[class action]] lawsuits. One case involved bringing lawsuits to force New York's Transit Authority to hire [[heroin]] addicts. The LSC also violated its own rules by organizing political campaigns against a state referendum and against [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>Barone, Michael (July 8, 1999). [http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone070899.asp "Taking Hillary seriously"]. ''Jewish World Review'' website.</ref>

Clinton failed the District of Columbia [[Bar Exam]] in the 1970s.<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200706010006 On Today, Bernstein omitted key fact in purported disclosure of Clinton's D.C. bar exam failure: It's not news], ''[[MediaMatters]]'' June 1, 2007. Retrieved from MediaMatters.org October 4, 2007.</ref>

Clinton failed the District of Columbia [[Bar Exam]] in the 1970s.<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200706010006 On Today, Bernstein omitted key fact in purported disclosure of Clinton's D.C. bar exam failure: It's not news], ''[[MediaMatters]]'' June 1, 2007. Retrieved from MediaMatters.org October 4, 2007.</ref>