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...liberals, the most disturbing thing about Ginsburg is his chief sponsor: Attorney General Edwin Meese. After watching Ginsburg during the young lawyer's two years of service in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, Meese became convinced that he was a true believer in the conservative cause, and lobbied hard for his appointment. Meese had to prevail over White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who preferred that the President nominate moderate, mainstream, conservative Judge Anthony Kennedy, an eleven-year veteran of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in California...
Many court watchers question just how conservative the shy, unassuming Ginsburg really is. In his fields of expertise, antitrust law and regulation of the broadcasting and banking industries, Ginsburg is a free-market disciple who believes the government should intervene as little as possible in the business world. Yet there is virtually nothing in his handful of scholarly articles and opinions to indicate where he stands on civil rights, women's issues and privacy rights. Bork's conservative stands on those volatile social matters killed his nomination...
...former head of the Justice Department's antitrust division and now a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Ginsburg, 41, is little known to the public, and his professional performance is being scrutinized by the Senate Judiciary Committee in preparation for confirmation hearings...
Ginsburg, on the appellate court for the District of Columbia, is the former chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division. However, some Democrats believe Ginsburg is a conservative ideologue in the mold of Robert H. Bork, whose nomination was turned down by the Senate last Friday...
...offensive lineman Gene Upshaw, who may not be offensive enough for a labor leader, denied the Players Association was mortally wounded. "They definitely took a hunk of flesh out of us," he said, "but we're not busted. We're still here." Announcing that the union had filed an antitrust suit against the owners' "blatant display of monopoly powers," Upshaw said, "We've tried bargaining, we've been on strike. Now we'll let the courts decide." They intend to challenge the basic N.F.L. contract, the reserve system, even the college draft...