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...prospect, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, starts 1987 with a respectable treasury. "We would love to have their backing," says a strategist for Colorado Senator Gary Hart. "Many insiders will view (Impac's decision) as the first Democratic primary of 1988." Says an aide to Delaware Senator Joe Biden, who has already assembled an informal team of campaign advisers: "This group can make or break a candidacy early...
...Senate, Democrats led by Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden reviewed Rehnquist's opposition to desegregation and cited a newly discovered memorandum the Justice wrote in 1970 opposing the Equal Rights Amendment. But only about 30 Senators are committed to blocking the nomination, with several more wavering. Said a Biden aide: "That doesn...
...Antonin Scalia's nomination to Rehnquist's seat on the Supreme Court. Unlike Rehnquist, Scalia, 50, attempted to charm his questioners with good humor. But the Senators were less than delighted. After he repeatedly sidestepped questions on abortion, freedom of information, affirmative action and equal protection, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden interjected, "Who are you, Judge Scalia? Let yourself go, because it's been pretty boring thus far." Scalia refused to take up the challenge. "I have no agenda," he said...
...dispute over Rehnquist's qualifications remained bitter and partisan to the end, as relentless attacks were led by Kennedy and fellow Democrats Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Paul Simon of Illinois and Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware...
...initially nominated to the Supreme Court. Even with a redoubtable conservative ally, North Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, at the helm of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the rumpled and bemused Rehnquist suffered some turbulent moments at the hands of liberal Democratic committee members like Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden. Although the heated hearings were not expected to hurt Rehnquist's chances of confirmation as the 16th Chief Justice of the U.S. when the full Senate votes in September, they raised some sticky questions about his sensitivity to racial issues...