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...This will be painless," declared Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden last week. And so it was for Supreme Court Nominee Anthony Kennedy, as he breezed through his confirmation hearings before the same panel that put Robert Bork through a bruising, highly partisan interrogation last summer. Kennedy's deferential manner, as well as a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association, guaranteed easy treatment...
...California appeals-court judge sailed smoothly through two days of questioning. Unlike Bork, he assured Senators of his respect for previous Supreme Court decisions and belief in an individual's "zone of liberty" from Government intrusion. Despite the grumblings of conservatives still smarting over the rejection of Bork, Kennedy seems assured of confirmation when the Senate reconvenes after Christmas recess...
...Adrian Cronauer. He did host a lively radio show, he did play rock 'n' roll, he was ordered not to read a news dispatch about a cafe bombing he had witnessed. ("Adrian is now in law school," says Williams, who met Cronauer two weeks ago. "He looks like Judge Bork.") But around these few facts, the film spins a fantasy of irreverence and lost innocence. Mostly, it puts its star behind an Armed Forces Radio mike to devise some stratospheric ad libs. The monologues, the English lessons for Vietnamese students and Adrian's chat with a truckload of G.I.s were...
...Judge Robert H. Bork we'd offer a new holiday tidin...
...understand why a Senator might vote for him. A Senator can't abstain from voting," said Dershowitz, who advised senators on how to defeat Bork. "But a citizen can abstain, and I think abstention may the proper course of action when a bad president names a mediocre nominee to an already bad court...