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...course it does. At times, the cloud which seemed to make what happened both incomprehensible and irrelevant gave way to light. Judge Robert Bork found that intelligence is not enough in a democracy. The Constitution is not better for being played with like a Rubik's cube. Its power lies in its simplicity, its acknowledgement of the people's right to govern themselves...
Savoye attributed the rise in Stanford applications to the same factors, saying, "L.A. Law, [the stock market crash on] October 19 and all of the interest in the Bork and Ginsburg [Supreme Court confirmation] hearings made students more interested in the legal profession...
Last fall it was hard not to notice Delaware's Senator Joseph Biden. The garrulous Democrat was in the spotlight as a candidate for President, and after a plagiarism scandal forced his withdrawal, he remained at center stage as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Bork hearings. But since February Joe Biden has been seen neither on TV nor in the Senate. Much of the time he has spent in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He checked in on Feb. 12 so doctors could correct an aneurysm near his brain. He returned a month later with...
During last year's battle over the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, his opponents shuddered every time they looked ahead to the cases he might decide. But what really unnerved them was looking back at earlier court rulings that he might press to overturn. When Judge Anthony Kennedy was confirmed for the seat that Bork had sought, those fears subsided a bit. "Conservative but cautious" was the reading on Kennedy, not the man to go ripping up long lines of settled doctrine...
Savoye attributed the application increase at Stanford to "three things: L. A. Law, [the Wall St. Crash on] October 19, and all of the interest in the Bork and Ginsburg trials...