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...battle over Bork could be the culminating ideological showdown of the Reagan era. After nearly seven years in office, the President has altered the tenor of the nation's political debate, riding and guiding the pendulum swing from the liberal Zeitgeist of the 1960s to the conservative climate of the '80s. Yet for all the talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view...
Thus, to a great many people around the country, the Bork confirmation struggle is nothing less than a fight for the soul of American society. Evangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson speak of a Bork appointment as a kind of salvation for a morally misguided Supreme Court. Exulted Human Events, a right-wing journal: "The President . . . could advance his entire social agenda -- from tougher criminal penalties, to curbing abortion-on- demand, to sustaining religious values in the schools, etc. -- far beyond his term in office...
...liberal call to arms was proclaimed by Senator Ted Kennedy just hours after the nomination was announced. Said he: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of Government...
...hearings will be only the first phase of the proceedings. Biden says the Judiciary Committee will make its determination -- favorable, unfavorable, no recommendation -- but will vote the matter out to the full Senate for consideration next month, even if a majority of the committee ends up opposing Bork. If, however, Bork is given an unfavorable report, Biden says, "I would hope the President would withdraw the nomination and send up another name. If Bork cannot convince the committee, then he probably would lose a vote on the floor as well." Given the stakes involved, Reagan is sure to ignore such...
Those fence sitters have been the targets of one of the most aggressive congressional lobbying drives in recent memory. "I've never seen this intensity for a campaign before," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the umbrella organization coordinating the anti-Bork juggernaut. "People are looking at this as all our previous battles wrapped into one." Says Tom Korologos, a noted Republican lobbyist retained by the White House to fight for Bork: "Rarely have I seen both left and right so vehement in their zeal...