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...teaches law at Northeastern University in Boston, on his first day at Oxford. After returning from England and earning his law degree at Yale, Reich clerked for a federal appeals judge in Boston. He then worked for seven years in Washington, first as an assistant to Solicitor General Robert Bork, then at the Federal Trade Commission during the Carter Administration...
Ever since Alan Dershowitz struck out, Leona Helmsley has been pining away in Danbury federal prison. Not for long, if ROBERT BORK has anything to say about it. Judge Bork, a Supreme Court nominee who was spurned in 1987, will argue her tax-fraud case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City at the end of the summer. As Solicitor General for Presidents Nixon and Ford, he spent four years arguing cases before the Supreme Court. But why would a distinguished legal scholar and jurist want to take an assignment like the Helmsley case? Explains...
...field that firebrands go into." Those who know her describe her as both a conservative and a feminist but not an ideologue in either area. "I suspect she's a card-carrying Republican," says Joel Paul, a friend who recalls arguments in which Hill would loudly support Judge Robert Bork's unsuccessful nomination to the Supreme Court. "She is cut from the same political cloth as Thomas...
...think this is more specifically a reaction to the Bork nomination...now the "blank slate" nominees, and I guess Souter is the best example, get precedence because people can't find things to not confirm them...
...ROBERT BORK WON'T get a second shot at the Supreme Court, but his nomination did not die in vain. His 1987 rejection by the Senate taught President Bush & Co. an important political lesson, and they now appear to have established some ground rules for getting Supreme Court nominees confirmed...