Word: bork
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...been so long since we have had an old-fashioned confirmation bloodletting, you could almost forget the foul mood that overtook the U.S. during the fights over Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Washington was so shell-shocked by the Thomas battle that people were intent on turning the next Supreme Court vacancy, in 1994, into a milder affair. And Stephen Breyer's confirmation process proved to be a breeze...
...Democrat does, not a Republican. If you saw two men standing side by side, one bearded and one clean-shaven, would you not, if asked which man belonged to which party, assume that the Democrat was the guy with whiskers? But surely these are stereotypes. Think of Robert Bork's ridiculous chin-strap...
...Here we enter upon advanced beard studies - the consideration of differentiated beard styles. Bork's neat, even prissy clip bespeaks something of a law-and-order personality deriving from the Ice People, even as it gestures a little confusingly in an Amish direction - not the full rectitudinous C. Everett Koop model, but a thinner version thereof...
...Both sides are set for a pitched battle, and it could be a replay of my experience," says Robert Bork, a conservative whose 1987 nomination to the court went down in an ugly partisan clash. Bush might get away with naming an unbending conservative to Rehnquist's slot. But one of the toughest tasks of Bush's presidency could be replacing O'Connor--a swing vote on a court that often rules 5 to 4 and the crucial fifth vote upholding Roe v. Wade, since pro-choice groups no longer count on Anthony Kennedy. "Any effort by Bush to appoint...
Bollinger also made national headlines in 1987, when he testified against Ronald Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert Bork for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that Bork was incorrect in stating that only political speech--not novels, poetry or scientific papers--was protected by the First Amendment...