Word: bork
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...walk away from this fight. The Senate should make Souter answer some questions: questions about his basic philosophies for constitutional interpretation, so that it may, in the words of one legal scholar, "police the outer limits" and "preserve the balance" of the court. That is how it stopped Robert Bork, and that is how it can stop David Souter, if such a rejection is called...
...organizations promised to battle any nominee likely to provide the key vote that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion. Referring to the political onslaught by civil rights groups and liberal forces that derailed Ronald Reagan's effort to elevate Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, Democratic consultant Roger Craver predicted that "the Bork nomination will seem mild compared with the political mobilization and pressure that will be brought upon the Senate over this nomination...
Among Bush's closest advisers, one faction, led by Secretary of State James Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, may prod Bush to choose a moderate conservative to avoid the type of Senate fight that led to the rejection of Bork. They are expected to argue that since Bush may have a chance to fill more vacancies, there is no need to antagonize Congress in an election year...
Direct-mail fund raising also leads groups to create or exploit bogeymen, to personalize the issue. Ted Kennedy's dream may have died, but it lives on in the nightmares of thousands of conservative donors. Liberal causes have lost Ed Meese and Robert Bork, but are trying (a bit desperately) to make do with David Duke, the former Klansman in the Louisiana state legislature...
...conspicuously progressive Law School, Stewart made waves when he supported Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork and opposed a tenure offer to radical contracts scholar Clare Dalton...