Word: bork
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...Anthony Kennedy: Following on the tail of a bitter congressional battle over unsuccessful Reagan nominees Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy was confirmed easily in 1988. A moderate who often helps Rehnquist build necessary compromises, Kennedy tends to examine each case on an individual basis, and seems uninterested in making larger political statements...
...Recent nominations include Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg under President Clinton. Robert H. Bork, who was nominated by President Reagan, was the last nominee to be rejected by the Senate. President Nixon had two nominees denied. The most recent contested nominee was Clarence Thomas who only received a 52-48 vote...
...hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual against the power of the state, we are going to see individual rights suffering." The President's judges are already pushing his message. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Bork, a former Yale Law School professor, has called the Supreme Court's 1973 pro-abortion decision in Roe vs. Wade a "wholly unjustifiable usurpation of state legislative authority...
DIED. HOWELL HEFLIN, 83, chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court turned three-term Senator from Alabama; in Sheffield, Ala. A conservative Democrat, he voted against the nominations of Judges Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas and was a consistent supporter of black colleges and civil rights, including fair-housing legislation and a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King...
Shortly before Cox was finally dismissed by Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, he issued a one-line statement: “Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people...