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This echoes Robert Bork's complaint in 1987 that his rejection by the Senate would cause potential Supreme Court nominees to avoid leaving a paper trail. But there is a key difference. President Reagan chose Bork precisely because of his paper trail of radical views. President Clinton chose Guinier as an experienced civil rights litigator. There was no danger the tentative academic / musings in Guinier's writings would become locked into policy, even if she had wanted them to. Guinier was doomed for her thinking, not for anything she might actually have done in the job -- a classic p.c. exercise...
Areeda's legal opponent in the case was former Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork...
...mire the entire process has sunk. Sadly, those who felt that Thurgood Marshall's sucessor should be Black had their demand of color met at the expense of ideology; they were greeted with the one of the most conservative nominees of recent memory. Again, due to what happened to Bork, Thomas was without the judicial qualification that used to elicit a Supreme Court nomination...
Sadly, there is no sign of a let-up. A.E. Dick Howard, a professor at the University of Virginia, warns, "My friends in conservative circles are still smarting over the Bork hearings, even though it's been six years now. They're salivating over the thought of a markedly liberal candidate so they can 'do a Bork,' as they...
They must put the painful memories of the Bork hearings behind them and act for the good of the country. If they are able to confirm an intelligent, qualified justice, they have done everyone a tremendous service, even if he or she does not meet with the approval of the NRA or the Heritage Foundation...