Word: bork
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President Reagan also met with Helms to reassure him about the nomination. Reagan also chatted amiably with Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., who led the successful fight to defeat the first nominee for the court vacancy, Robert H. Bork. Reagan's second nominee, appellate judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, asked the president to withdraw his name last Saturday after Ginsburg's admission of past marijuana...
...seat on the Supreme Court. This set off a chain reaction in the government. As each new nominee was embroiled in controversy and rejected by the Senate, the administration's policy of leniency constantly had to be expanded. Samples of the confirmation hearings for the next few nominees after Bork and Ginsburg follow...
Griswold contains the offices of high-profileLaw School faculty members such as Alan M.Dershowitz and Tribe, who played a key role informulating the Senate Judiciary Committee'sstrategy to defeat Supreme Court nominee JudgeRobert H. Bork...
...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...
Harvard Law Professor Hal Scott, a friend of Ginsburg's since high school, says the new nominee is a social conservative, though not in the Bork mold. "The difference is Bork is a conceptualist," says Scott. "He has a theory, and the issue is how to fit the case into the theory. Doug comes at things case by case." With Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, Scott says, "everyone will get a fair shake...