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...cast perhaps the deciding vote on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal in all states. He gave scant comfort to either side on that issue, flatly refusing to discuss Roe even in the wake of lengthy grilling by committee chairman Joseph Biden. Though he acknowledged the right of married couples to privacy, he refused to budge further in discussing either privacy or abortion rights. When asked whether he could understand the anguish of a woman facing an unwanted pregnancy, however, he revealed a personal incident from his days as a dorm counselor...
...Bork hearings of 1987 were inevitable. Observed a committee Democrat: "Bork came before this committee with enough votes to be nominated. Then he got people mad. David Souter hasn't made that mistake." It was clear after the first few hours of testimony that he almost certainly would not. Biden, at one point, seemed to acknowledge that confirmation was a foregone conclusion when he referred to the "eight Justices, whom you'll be joining." The chairman saw no need to qualify this declaration...
Yourow said that he will play the part of Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. In addition, Yourow said that Brian Couchouchis, a constitutional lawyer who has worked with Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, will play Souter...
...prohibitionists have been saying, let us take care of the drug problem the supply, we may be able to eradicate the use of this or that drug and thereby stop its use. Politicians still wish to see an "all-fronts assault on the drug epidemic," as Sen. Joseph R. Biden (D-Del.) said recently...
...superpowers remain locked in an unstable, apocalyptic embrace. Georgia's Democratic Senator Sam Nunn has proposed a review of targeting doctrine, and Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, will probe the issue at hearings. The most determined critic is Delaware's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, who urges a presidential review of nuclear plans to determine whether deterrence is now possible "at a greatly reduced level...