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...Wilson ran for California's then vacant Senate seat and beat ex- Governor Jerry Brown. Wilson was a true-blue Reaganite in backing the Strategic Defense Initiative and Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. But he also voted to override the President's veto of civil rights legislation...
Remember Robert Bork? Four years ago, liberal legislators beat back Ronald Reagan's nomination of the controversial conservative scholar to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now ideological forces are marshaling for another judicial confirmation battle. The focus is Federal District Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, 58, nominated by President Bush to fill a vacancy on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Florida. The Miami jurist will face a rugged reception this week at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, where opponents will try to block his confirmation on the ground that he is insensitive to civil rights...
...Wildlife Refuge, an ecologically sensitive area that has been closed to drilling since it was established in 1960. Environmental groups, fearing irreversible damage to the ecosystem, are promising to fight that proposal with an all-out campaign that could turn into this year's version of the bitter Robert Bork confirmation battle. "We'll fight to the end," says Sierra Club spokesman Marty Hayden. "There's no compromise on ANWR...
Looking at the foundation's current interests, Pierson says the organization concentrates on economics, law and foreign affairs. Some of its other recent projects have included an Olin chair in legal studies fo Judge Robert H. Bork, a failed Reagan nominee for the Supreme Court, and a grant to the conservative Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Foundation to study child care issues...
Choate's latest book, Agents of Influence (Knopf; $22.95), an impassioned, sometimes shrill, but always well-documented expose of Japan's lobbying muscle in Washington, will not be published for two weeks. But already the bearded and earnest economist is becoming the most divisive figure in Washington since Robert Bork. For Choate, in his book, identifies dozens of former top U.S. officials and politicians (such as Elliot Richardson, Stuart Eizenstat and Charles Manatt) whose firms represent Japanese clients, and he raises serious questions about the ethics of that practice...