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...sickening politicization of judicial appointments that has taken place in and around Room SR-325 has all but destroyed the climate necessary for rational discussion and debate about matters of jurisprudence. The lesson learned from the political firefight and subsequent defeat of Robert H. Bork in the fall of 1987 was that the worst possible baggage that a that a nominee could be saddled with was a well-documented record on a range of issues...
This idea-hostile environment reduced President Bush to nominating David H. Souter '61, a judge whose memory should be measured in volumes but whose federal career could be measured in hours. The painful memory of Bork's defeat on issues of substance coupled with George Bush's apparent lack of backbone bestowed upon this country a relatively unknown and possibly unqualified nominee for the highest court in the country--a position for which there is no recall...
However, Tribe has his enemies on Capitol Hill. He has been vocal on constitutional issues, most particularly on abortion, and Republicans still remember the Bork testimony...
Senate Democrats on the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee have also thrown their support to Tribe, whose testimony was instrumental in helping Democrats kill the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert Bork...
...confirmed yesterday, through his secretary, that he is a candidate for solicitor general, a top Justice Department post. A pre-eminent constitutional scholar and well-known appellate advocate, Tribe has some experience in Washington. He was considered instrumental in killing President Ronald Reagan's 1987 nomination of Judge Robert Bork, giving several hours of Senate testimony on the nominee...