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...only Black lawyer slated to testify for Bork, Baker's change of mind following conversations with a Black aide to Senator Howard Metzenbaum drew national attention. While it's unknown exactly why Baker decided not to testify, Williams speculates that the reason has to do with expected negative reaction by other Blacks. Baker, Williams said, "may feel that the issue is not worth the sacrifice in social contacts and ostracism...
...feel very sorry for Doug Ginsburg and hisfamily," said Tribe, a strong opponent of JudgeRobert H. Bork, Ginsburg's predecessor to replaceretired Justice Lewis F. Powell. "What hashappened reflects far more badly on the ReaganAdministration than on Judge Ginsburg...
Tribe, who testified for three hours against Judge Robert H. Bork in the Senate confirmation hearings, last week told The Boston Globe that he hired a surveillance expert on Monday, November 2--two days after his secretaries heard the sounds--on the advice of his attorney...
Ginsburg will need all the equanimity he can muster as he prepares for what could be yet another explosive Supreme Court confirmation fight. Last week Ronald Reagan nominated the 41-year-old jurist as an Associate Justice of the court. Ginsburg, like Reagan's first choice, the defeated Robert Bork, is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Last month, as one Senator after another denounced Bork's ideological views, the President promised that his next nominee would be just as objectionable to liberals as Bork had been. Reagan may have made good...
...morning, hours before he was scheduled to announce the nomination. Although Baker warned that Ginsburg might have confirmation problems, Meese won the day. Afterward, Reagan heard from Senate right-wingers like Jesse Helms, who argued that appointing a "vanilla conservative" like Kennedy would be a surrender to the anti-Bork forces...