Word: bork
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Thomas is convivial enough. According to unsuccessful 1987 court nominee Robert Bork, "He has a great sense of humor and a wonderful laugh that shakes the room." Yet Thomas has uttered not one inquiry from the bench this term, preferring to rock silently back and forth in his chair. While some critics see that as diffidence, others note that silence has always been proper behavior during oral arguments. Among those who practiced magisterial quietude: Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan...
...that idea, Nixon on Oct. 20 angrily told Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned instead. Nixon told Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; he too refused and resigned. General Alexander Haig, Haldeman's successor as White House chief of staff, finally got Solicitor General Robert Bork to do the job, and so the "Saturday Night Massacre" ended, leaving the Nixon Administration a shambles. (In the midst of all this, it was almost incidental that Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned under fire for having taken graft and that he was replaced by Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford...
...disgust that Democrats express over the witch-hunt, the shoe could just as easily be on the other foot. Previous nominees Douglas Ginsburg and Robert Bork, who suffered equally vituperative attacks from the left, can attest to that. But the current campaign has been remarkably effective in preventing the Clinton Administration from getting policy initiatives off the ground...
This echoes Robert Bork's complaint in 1987 that his rejection by the Senate would cause potential Supreme Court nominees to avoid leaving a paper trail. But there is a key difference. President Reagan chose Bork precisely because of his paper trail of radical views. President Clinton chose Guinier as an experienced civil rights litigator. There was no danger the tentative academic / musings in Guinier's writings would become locked into policy, even if she had wanted them to. Guinier was doomed for her thinking, not for anything she might actually have done in the job -- a classic p.c. exercise...
Areeda's legal opponent in the case was former Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork...