Word: bork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reconsider cases that have pushed civil rights and women's rights forward; Reagan nominees have shown that they are intent upon cutting them back. With three liberal justices poised for retirement, the next president, in effect, will cast the deciding votes. Bush supported the nomination of Robert Bork and he cast the tie-breaking Senate vote confirming reactionary Daniel Manion as a federal judge. He certainly would appoint justices who would send civil rights and civil liberties spinning backwards...
...biennial report card bases its tally on thevoting records of all Congressman. The study usedas its litmus test legislation on issues such asRobert Bork's Supreme Court nomination, the CivilRights Restoration Act, the immigrationlegalization program, pay equity, disabilityrights, programs for low-income children andfamilies, and minimum wage legislation...
ARIZONA Dennis DeConcini's fight against Robert Bork hasn't hurt him in his conservative state...
...study group entitled "Challenging the Status Quo: A Two Party South." Ralph Neas, the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a coalition of 180 national organizations that advocates rights for minorities in the legislature and the executive branch, will lead a study group called "The Bork Battle: The Legislative Process at Work...
Hyperbolic, perhaps, coming from a man whose public life over the past year has included announcing his candidacy and then dropping out of the race for President and chairing the judiciary committee hearings that denied former Solicitor General Robert Bork a seat on the Supreme Court. But this is Biden's first event since February, when he was felled by a life-threatening brain aneurysm. Before he returns to Washington, before he bangs the gavel to open an important set of foreign policy hearings this Wednesday, before he grants any interviews, he wanted to come to the place where...