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...Souter's very lack of a firm ideological profile that appealed to Bush. Three years earlier liberal activist groups had derailed the court nomination of the indisputably conservative Robert Bork. If Souter didn't have a long paper trail of court rulings, law review articles and books, it would be much harder for liberals to stage a replay of the Bork defeat. (Read the TIME 100: The World's Most Influential People...
...automatic 60th vote." That's an understatement. Independent to the point of being exasperating, Specter was never a reliable Republican vote and isn't likely to be much more dependable for Democrats. He played a pivotal role in defeating the Supreme Court nomination of conservative icon Robert Bork in 1987 and famously invoked Scottish law to vote "not proved," therefore not guilty, in Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. Yet Democrats should not forget that he voted for George W. Bush's tax cuts and Supreme Court nominees and the Iraq invasion...
...Biden led the Judiciary committee through the contentious confirmation hearings for Judge Robert Bork, and spent much time locking horns with Jesse Helms on the Foreign Relations committee. His prescriptions for U.S. foreign policy have been sometimes controversial - he supports dividing Iraq into three autonomous regions, for example. But he is accepted as an expert and respected on both sides of the aisle...
Sunstein’s influence has also extended beyond the academic sphere. He has testified before the Senate during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Stephen G. Breyer and Robert H. Bork, as well as during the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton...
...preeminent Constitutional Law scholar, Tribe is often recognized for his role in the Senate's highly-publicized 1987 rejection of conservative judge Robert H. Bork, a Reagan nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court...