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Fried also testified this past September in the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr ’76. In 1987, Tribe played a key role in derailing the high-court nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork. But at the close of hearings yesterday, Alito’s confirmation to the high court appeared very likely...
...three months earlier, Tribe had helped the Senate Democrats plan their drive to block a conservative judge, Robert H. Bork, from gaining a spot on the high-court bench. The professor played the role of “Judge Bork” in a practice session as then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-Del., honed his cross-examination tactics, according to a 1987 Washington Post report. And Tribe “served as the keynote speaker for the opposition” at the Bork hearings, according to a New York Times report that same year...
...half-decentHollywood thriller, every serious political brawl in Washington needs at least one good villain. It's not nearly as much fun or as easy to score points and hurl invective back and forth without a compelling one-dimensional character at the center of it all. Robert Bork played that role magnificently in his 1987 epic Supreme Court battle, as did Clarence Thomas in his more understated performance four years later. More recently, during the bloody conservative revolt over the Supreme Court nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers, the real villain turned out to be her chief backer...
...forgiven for appearing a bit downcast in the days following the introduction of Bush's newest nominee, Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito Jr., 55. The Princeton and Yale Law--educated career public servant may have the most solid conservative judicial record of any Supreme Court nominee since Bork. It's more than enough to satisfy most Republicans looking for as close to a sure thing as possible on hot-button issues like abortion, the death penalty and the roles of religion and race in American society. But like John Roberts, the Bush Supreme Court nominee who sailed through confirmation...
...current Court has interpreted it. We were optimistic about the nomination of Chief Justice John G. Roberts ’76 because of his seeming lack of ideological approach. Alito, however, shares a radical conservative philosophy with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. In light of the fact that Alito has been nominated to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whose position as a swing-vote made her opinion critical in many decisions, it is even more critical that Senate Democrats and Republicans reject Alito. Yet, even without such considerations of balance...