Word: bork
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...committee vote fell roughly along party lines, with Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania the only Republican to join eight Democrats in recommending rejection of Bork's nomination. The committee's five other Republicans were. on Bork's side...
Heflin's defection was particularly damaging to Bork's chances for confirmation, since White House officials were hoping to use a "yes" vote from the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to attract other conservative Southern Democrats to Bork's side...
...supporters praised Bork's intellect and integrity, and said he was the subject of unfair criticism...
Reagan was described as angry at the mounting opposition to Bork...
McConnell, now an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School who recently testified in favor of the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork, said that the political debates which have plagued Harvard Law School for several years make it a less attractive place to come and teach...