Word: bork
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...staff) and said we don't want the nomination hearing to be like the Christian thrown to the lions with all the Romans around the outside going thumbs up or thumbs down," says a Senate Republican staffer involved in the planning. The GOP staffers feared a repeat of the Bork and Thomas hearings where the audience was predominantly hostile. So in addition to the skyboxes, there has been a consistent presence of Roberts?s supporters, including apparently ad hoc groups like 'Women for Roberts...
There are times, though, when differences between the worlds are jarringly apparent. Boy Scout officials proudly proclaim the group's commitment to pluralism--"We have a duty to God in our oath," says spokesman Robert Bork, "but not a Christian God." Yet that ideal is not always put into practice. Rehman, a jamboree chaplain's aide, recalls how, as he and the other chaplain's aides left a meeting, "everyone was handed a Bible. For a second, I thought it was a one-religion organization." Similarly, although halal meals were requested for Muslim scouts attending the jamboree, no one seems...
Minutes after Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork in 1987, Senator Edward Kennedy charged onto the Senate floor and thundered that the ascension of the conservative judge to the Supreme Court would be the end of America as we know it. Kennedy's blast set the tone for that doomed nomination, so White House officials felt no small amount of relief last week at the reception that John Roberts received when he made his trip into the liberal lion's den. Roberts emerged from Kennedy's office with his hide intact--and a map of Ireland. Sure enough, Kennedy had been...
There is no doubt that John Roberts has all the credentials that a President could ask for in a Supreme Court nominee: the Harvard degrees, the federal clerkships, the government service and the years at a white-shoe Washington law firm. But in the post-Bork age, with the opposition ready to pounce on a nominee's judicial or academic record, Roberts also boasts that most prized feature of a résumé--a relatively short paper trail. For a man widely considered one of the brightest legal minds of his generation, Roberts has made very few of his personal views...
...activist groups that will carry the nomination fight to the public, the name of the game is hit early and often. Conservatives still remember their bitter and unsuccessful 1987 fight over Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, when they were caught off guard by Senator Edward Kennedy's lightning-fast characterization of Bork--within an hour of Bork's nomination--as a man who would create an America where "women would be forced into back-alley abortions [and] blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters." The label stuck and helped ensure Bork's defeat. For weeks Progress for America...