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YOUR FACE LOOKS SO FAMILIAR. When the newest conservative saint, Robert Bork, was introduced by Phyllis Schlafly at her Eagle Forum reception in the New Orleans Museum of Art, the glossy crowd applauded him like teenyboppers stomping for George Michael. The Supreme Court Wanna-Be appeared uncomfortable with his rock-star-like reception. After denouncing liberal judges -- "We want a court, not a bunch of left-wing politicians in robes" -- Bork revealed that his newfound celebrity had robbed him of his privacy in public. He noted that at a supermarket recently a woman came up to him, tugged...
...Robert Bork, the former Supreme Court nominee, said the 1988 Presidential election will have an "important impact" on the future of the nation's judicial system...
...gathers from the leading Democrats that they really want judges who make policy and make it in a certain direction and I think that's what will happen if Gov. [Michael S.] Dukakis is elected," Bork said. The judge criticized Harvard Law School professors for signing a committee report opposing his nomination which Bork called "quite distorted...
...Bork also criticized Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). "The whole episode did not change my opinion of Senator Kennedy," Bork said. "My opinion of him is probably not flattering on most scales...
...from foreshadowing the Bork hearings, the Fortas affair is a prelude to Watergate, another time when democracy caught up with its defilers. What nags at the end of this book, though, is that had Fortas not accepted Johnson's appointment to the Court as he had tried to do, he would never had been held accountable. His power would have been unchecked, his wealth would have been increased...