Word: bork
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...Democrats, because of the 1986 election returns that gave them a Senate majority, now have the clout to block Bork. They should do so. And remember--it's just politics...
Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Richard L. Thornburgh in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday rallied to the side of Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork, calling him "a man of personal integrity...
Thornburgh, the former two-term Republican governor of Pennsylvania, was one in a panel of four former Justice Department officials who testified yesterday in Bork's favor as the Senate entered its third week of confirmation hearings...
...came to know Bob Bork as an extremely able and intelligent lawyer," Thornburgh said, reading mostly from a prepared statement. "I also came to know Bob Bork to be a man of personal integrity and a man of commitment to the rule...
Thornburgh, who worked under Bork in the Justice Department from 1975 to 1977 in the Ford Administration, defended Bork as "a staunch believer in our Constitutional system" and predicted the judge "would be a distinguished member of the Supreme Court...