Word: bork
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...palpable sense of vengeance. Some liberals want to make up for their leadership's rather lax opposition to the promotion of William Rehnquist to Chief Justice and the appointment of conservative Antonin Scalia to the court last year. Moreover, with only 16 months remaining in the Reagan Administration, the Bork issue has become a device to galvanize and unify the disparate interest groups on the left. Neas is overseeing a "megacoalition" of prominent liberal organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P., Common Cause, People for the American Way, the National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights Action League. The coalition...
Last month the American Civil Liberties Union formally called for Bork's rejection. The only other court nominee the A.C.L.U. has officially opposed was Rehnquist in 1971. Earlier in August, the AFL-CIO came out against Bork, citing his "overriding commitment to the interests of the wealthy and powerful...
...most surprising blow to Bork was dealt by the American Bar Association, which damned him with divided praise. Though the A.B.A.'s committee voted to grant Bork its highest rating, "well qualified," four of the 15 members felt that the judge was "not qualified." Given that the A.B.A. has unanimously approved the vast majority of court nominees over the past three decades, the number of dissents was striking. While most critics have attacked Bork on ideological grounds, the A.B.A. dissenters were not supposed to have even considered the judge's political philosophy. According to the committee's official guidelines, members...
...liberals are wreaking havoc on the whole confirmation process," says Dan Casey of the American Conservative Union. "We are reluctant to engage in that." Instead, conservative groups have concentrated on mailings to their members. One statement charges that the anti-Bork movement "is a consortium of extremists, kooks, weirdos and America-haters -- the likes of which we have not seen since Jane Fonda held fund-raising dinners for George McGovern...
Unlike the right-wing activists who hail Bork for his ideological bent, Reagan and his men have gone out of their way to present the nominee as a mainstream jurist who decides cases with a completely open mind. "If you want someone with Justice Powell's detachment and statesmanship," said the President in a speech last July, "you can't do better than Judge Bork." The White House distributed to key Senators a 70-page briefing book outlining many of Bork's rulings and proclaiming that the judge was a model practitioner of "judicial restraint...