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...Bork episode was purely the result of clashing political ideologies and a shift in the direction of American politics, such was not the case for Fortas. In the end, even liberal senators would call for his resignation from the Court, and then-Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) was the first of them to deliver the request...
...fate of Robert Bork, who himself fell victim to the Senate after a similarly brusing confirmation battle in which his conservative views were treated with the same contempt that once met Fortas' liberal ideas, lingers in the background of this biography. Murphy makes the connection explicit in his preface and his epilogue. But a crucial difference remains...
...while Thornburgh may have decided againstcampaigning for a political post, he has stillbeen actively involved in the political worldwhile at Harvard. He has been mentioned as apossible running mate for Vice President GeorgeBush in the fall campaign. And he testifed onbehalf of Judge Robert Bork, whom he knew from hisearlier Justice Department days, during hisunsuccessful nomination hearings before the SenateJudiciary Committee last year
...Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court was resoundingly rejected last year in large part because the Senate feared Bork would push the Justices into overturning landmark decisions on civil rights. All the more reason for the uproar last April, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, who filled the vacant seat, joined a 5-to-4 court majority inviting reargument of a 1976 decision that allowed citizens to sue private institutions for damages resulting from racial discrimination...
...through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...