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...Senate Judiciary Committee's negative vote on the nomination of Justice Robert Bork to the Supreme Court reaffirms the nation's commitment to individual liberty, a major civil rights activist said last night...
American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Ira Glasser said he was "pleased as punch" with the outcome of the Bork hearings before the Senate Committee because it concentrated on Bill of Rights issues...
...speech, sponsored by the Harvard Law School Civil Liberties Union, follows the rejection of Bork's nomination by the Senate Judiciary Committee and precedes the full Senate vote, expected to occur next week...
...Bork goes on to explain that laws are as reflection of the morality of the majority of people," Glasser said. "And that deciding those laws is up to the local majority. He believes that if the Bill of Rights does not explicitly define a certain right, that it does not exist...
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