Word: bork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field that firebrands go into." Those who know her describe her as both a conservative and a feminist but not an ideologue in either area. "I suspect she's a card-carrying Republican," says Joel Paul, a friend who recalls arguments in which Hill would loudly support Judge Robert Bork's unsuccessful nomination to the Supreme Court. "She is cut from the same political cloth as Thomas...
...think this is more specifically a reaction to the Bork nomination...now the "blank slate" nominees, and I guess Souter is the best example, get precedence because people can't find things to not confirm them...
...ROBERT BORK WON'T get a second shot at the Supreme Court, but his nomination did not die in vain. His 1987 rejection by the Senate taught President Bush & Co. an important political lesson, and they now appear to have established some ground rules for getting Supreme Court nominees confirmed...
...Kennedy made the same argument in 1967 when he defended the Supreme Court appointment of Thurgood Marshall, the retiring Justice whom Thomas would replace. But as a committee member 20 years later, the Massachusetts Senator led what was almost exclusively an ideological campaign against Bork...
...Biden went after Thomas for the latter's "natural law" approach to interpreting the Constitution, by which judges can invoke vague notions of eternal justice that pre-exist the written document. Yet in his opening remarks to Bork four years ago, Biden celebrated something that sounded like a liberal's version of "natural law" as the common man's reproach to Bork's literal reading of the Constitution. "As a child of God," said Biden, "I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution . . . My rights are because I exist...