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...leading constitutional law scholar, Tribe testified against Bork this fall and advised Judiciary Committee members on how to defeat the nominee. Bork lost his bid by a vote of 58-42 in October...
Tribe told the committee that he considers Kennedy to be a moderate conservative, who is more liberal than Robert H. Bork, a former nominee for Justice Lewis F. Powell's seat...
...fact that an associate of Tribe's had trouble on his line during the same period that Tribe was working on the Bork hearings is obviously suspicious," Halpern said. "But it's certainly not hard evidence...
...likely to be the next leader of the free world. Contrast that with his obsequious behavior on t.v. the night before with Mikhail Gorbachev--a telegenic and articulate Mayor Daleytype--and you get an idea who's a bigger ratings draw and why Judge Robert Bork has some misgiving about the First Amendment. "I see," Brokaw would say, nodding with an impressed smile to Gorbachev answers like "We have eliminated the exploitation of man by man. We have no unemployed!" to such questions as "Why are there no human rights in the Soviet Union...
...Senate. Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative curmudgeon, once growled, "No way, Jose," at the prospect of Kennedy's nomination. But last week he allowed that Kennedy might make a "fine" Justice. Liberals are mostly being noncommittal, but they will have trouble taking back their comments during the Bork fight, when some identified Kennedy as the type of conservative they could accept. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who helped lead the opposition against Bork, describes Kennedy as "decent instead of dogmatic, sensitive instead of strident." Those may not be the qualities of a legal groundbreaker, but they are far from...