Word: bork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ALMOST tempting to feel sorry for Robert Bork. He stood on the brink of attaining the power and prestige afforded a justice of the United States Supreme Court, only to be denied the object of a life's work and thought--and, some would say, politicking. But if the predicament Judge Bork found himself in when he learned the Senate would not assent to his nomination deserves our understanding, it does not merit our sympathy...
...heard much of Bork's brilliance and intellect. There are many other minds roaming America's legal community at least equally as keen. Yet Robert Bork was the darling of the Reagan Administration, one of the first lawyers it put on the prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals and one of the first names on its short list of potential Supreme Court nominees...
...simple, namely that he, above all, could contribute with his "judicial philosophy" to their conservative social agenda, particularly in its attack on previous Court rulings on civil rights and privacy issues. His views on these issues are the very reason he will be rejected by the Senate. Bork's undoing was of his own doing, the cause of his nomination the cause of his rejection...
...Bork in my view represents the last best hope of that movement, it's instrument and theoretician," Glassor said...
...There arose the charge that Bork was not a conservative but an extremist," he said. "That demonstrated that the whole recent conservative movement was actually extremist also, that it was to overturn the real traditional values...