Word: bork
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...involve smoking guns or skeletons," says Nan Aron of Alliance for Justice, a public-interest law group. "It's going to come down to philosophy." A no-holds-barred tone was quickly set for the Senate debate in a scathing speech by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy: "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 could be censored at the whim of government...
...Bork's opponents are being driven to an openly ideological fight in part because there is not much chance of blocking his confirmation on other grounds, though they can be expected to publicize the fact that he was the man who fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox during Watergate's Saturday Night Massacre. Says former U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee, a Bork supporter: "Bob Bork is probably the most qualified person to be a Supreme Court Justice from the standpoint of intellect, temperament and training." A former Yale University law professor who was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals...
...Bork was the leading contender for the court seat from the first moments after Powell resigned. His name headed separate wish lists drawn up by both Attorney General Edwin Meese, who wanted a conservative in his own mold, and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, whose chief concern was to avoid an all-out war over confirmation. Though the combined list the men prepared for the President contained a dozen names, at a Monday-afternoon meeting with Reagan, Baker spoke for himself and Meese when he told the President, "Bork is a cut above all the rest...
...Capitol Hill, where they showed their list to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, and then to Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., who warned of a Senate fight over Bork. At a Washington hotel Wednesday morning, White House Counsel Arthur B. Culvahouse interrogated Bork over coffee to satisfy himself that the potential nominee had no awkward club memberships, dubious financial dealings or medical problems...
...Wednesday afternoon Bork was summoned to the White House. He arrived rumpled and perspiring heavily after a ride through Washington's tropical heat in a car that lacked air-conditioning, but nothing could wilt his readiness to accept the President's offer. "I've thought about it for at least ten or twelve seconds, and I would be highly honored," was Bork's reply. After an awkward pause Reagan inquired, "Does that mean...