Word: bork
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...years, Catholics in Washington have kept informal count of possible high-profile Opus people, including Justice Antonin Scalia and almost-Justice Robert Bork, Senators Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback, columnist Robert Novak and former FBI head Louis Freeh. The tally was not totally arbitrary: Freeh's child went to an Opus Dei school, and his brother was a numerary for a while; Scalia's wife has attended Opus events, and the Justice is close to an Opus priest; and Brownback, Bork and Novak converted to Catholicism under one's wing. Several have denied the rumors ("I can't stress enough...
...since the doomed Robert Bork has there been a Supreme Court nominee with such a clear record of opposition to abortion. And yet, as Samuel Alito moves closer to Senate confirmation this week, the rumble that many expected over his position on the issue has failed to materialize. That in itself tells us something about the nature of the abortion wars today...
...Fried and Tribe are not newcomers to Supreme Court hearings. In 1987, Tribe played a key role in derailing the high-court nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork. And in September, Fried testified in the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John G. Roberts...
Fried also testified this past September in the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr ’76. In 1987, Tribe played a key role in derailing the high-court nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork. But at the close of hearings yesterday, Alito’s confirmation to the high court appeared very likely...
...three months earlier, Tribe had helped the Senate Democrats plan their drive to block a conservative judge, Robert H. Bork, from gaining a spot on the high-court bench. The professor played the role of “Judge Bork” in a practice session as then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-Del., honed his cross-examination tactics, according to a 1987 Washington Post report. And Tribe “served as the keynote speaker for the opposition” at the Bork hearings, according to a New York Times report that same year...