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...Beltway calls the sort of public relations pounding Microsoft has taken in recent months "getting Borked," in honor of the partisan drubbing that kept Judge Robert Bork off the Supreme Court. So it was acutely ironic that the person doing the Borking last week was Judge Bork...
...done books by Peggy Noonan, Robert Bork, Christopher Darden, Wally Lamb, Douglas Coupland, Dr. Barry Sears and many others. What inspired you to say I publish sleazy books...
...years later, Ronald Reagan named him to the prestigious D.C. Federal Appeals Court, a traditional waiting room for Supreme Court nominees, which was the position Starr wanted. During six years on the appeals court, Starr was on the more moderate side of a conservative voting bloc that included Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia at its rightward end. He got a reputation as a consensus builder, ruling against affirmative action and busing but strongly supporting the First Amendment, notably in a high-profile decision favoring the Washington Post when it was sued for libel by Mobil chairman William P. Tavoulareas...
...Roman Catholic churches denounced NOW for its attack on the Promise Keepers and decried the negative impact of what they described as "radical feminism" on church and society. "We believe that the feminist fixation on power has sadly missed the point of the present cultural situation," said Mary Ellen Bork, the wife of the failed Supreme Court nominee and a lecturer on Catholic life. "In our view, power is not the goal in life." Added Pat Funderburk Ware, an African-American expert on preventing teenage pregnancy and HIV infection: "So many white women...are so co-opted by the feminist...
...revolution that lost its focus in recent years. So they have been not so quietly pursuing a historic change in the ambiguous "advise and consent" role the Constitution gives the Senate in the selection of federal judges. The successful assault by Democrats on Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court helped open the way for what has become a more partisan and ideological examination of all judicial nominees...