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...says Columbia University Law Professor Henry Monaghan. "You aren't going to see anything radical out of Bork on that court." The opposition was less sanguine. Says Art Kropp, executive director of the liberal People for the American Way: "By nominating Bork, the Administration has laid down the gauntlet...
...That gauntlet can be picked up only by the Senate. Should it be? Conservatives argue that changing the makeup of the court was part of Ronald Reagan's electoral mandate in 1980 and again in 1984. "This is one reason Ronald Reagan was elected," says Republican Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp. "To bring the Supreme Court back, after 25 years of wandering far from the meaning of the Constitution." Others contend that the Senate's constitutional responsibility to advise and consent does not extend to judgments of a candidate's philosophy. Says former Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bator: "If we adopt...
...size of today's Government has become a problem in itself. There are 20,000 people now serving the Congress, virtually a separate government, which simply by political weight intrudes more and more into Executive matters. The White House, responding to that gauntlet, has 1,600 people on its roster. The thing they all do best these days is accuse one another and then argue...
Leaving the TV studio, Madison braced himself for the gauntlet of demonstrators and special pleaders. He strode quickly past the suffragists with their banner: THE RITES OF MAN ARE WRONGS FOR WOMEN. He shook off two business lobbyists, easily identifiable by their soft Venetian boots, who wanted the Constitution specifically to exempt the game of rounders from the interstate commerce clause. Shy, soft-spoken and constantly embarrassed by his own meager war record, Madison found a delegation of Revolutionary War veterans harder to ignore. Confronted with half a dozen strapping backwoodsmen with rum on their breath and Valley Forge...
...Western Europe's and 60% of Japan's. Some of the 5.7 million barrels of gulf oil consumed each day by Western Europe and Japan is pumped through pipelines to terminals in the Red Sea and Mediterranean. The bulk, however, is shipped out in supertankers that must run the gauntlet of the gulf and the narrow Strait of Hormuz...