Word: bork
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...Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan's first appointment to the D.C. Circuit, is the favorite to fill the next opening on the Supreme Court during a Reagan presidency. As Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, Bork came to public notice for firing Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than do the deed. Bork intended to resign after firing Cox but stayed on when Richardson told him, "If you quit, there will be no Justice Department...
...legal circles, Bork, 57, is well known for his preachments on judicial restraint. He believes that judges should not aggrandize their power by second-guessing other branches of Government. As Solicitor General he opposed court-ordered busing to integrate schools. As a Yale Law School professor, he often accused the federal Judiciary of reading individual rights into the Constitution that were neither explicit nor implied...
Last August, Bork wrote a court-of-appeals opinion upholding the discharge of a Navy petty officer for homosexual conduct. Nowhere in "the text, structure or history of the Constitution" is there any "right to privacy" that would protect homosexual conduct, he concluded. Some experts think that Bork would vote to reverse Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on the ground that a woman's constitutional right to privacy outweighs the rights of a fetus until it can live outside the womb...
...says; public interest advances then abandons it. Without public interest--or without public knowledge-- "The standards have a way of sagging." That Saturday night in 1973, Richard Nixon feared a chain of resignations in his Justice Department before somebody in the succession would fire Cox. Solicitor General Robert Bork agreed to do it; today, Yale Law School Professor Bork is widely named as Ronald Reagan's top choice for the next opening on the Supreme Court. What does Cox think about that...
...Bork and D'Elia spent a day hiding from prowling Soviet helicopter gunships, and a night observing the battle from the top of a mud-walled house. But as Soviet forces came nearer they decided to return to Pakistan having spent five days in Afghanistan. After resting in Peshawar for three' days, they returned to the United States...