Word: ginsburgs
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...Tribe told The Globe the only time he had acontroversial conversation on that phone was theday before President Reagan nominated JudgeDouglas H. Ginsburg to the Supreme Court onOctober...
Kennedy was flown to Washington shortly beforeReagan chose Ginsburg, and he flew to the captitalagain on Saturday. Kennedy was reportedly thechoice of White House Chief of Staff Howard Bakerand other more moderate conservatives in theAdminstration who thought his more mainstreamviews would make his confirmation more likely thanGinsburg...
Throughout his short but illustrious career, Judge Douglas Ginsburg has shown a knack for staying above the fray. As a professor at Harvard Law School from 1975 to 1983, a time when ferocious political debate polarized the faculty, he made no enemies in either the liberal or the conservative camp. At the White House Office of Management and Budget in 1984 and 1985, Ginsburg grappled with an array of aggressive interest groups and lobbyists over environmental regulations and rules concerning safety in the workplace; yet he won high marks from both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill for his adept...
...Ginsburg will need all the equanimity he can muster as he prepares for what could be yet another explosive Supreme Court confirmation fight. Last week Ronald Reagan nominated the 41-year-old jurist as an Associate Justice of the court. Ginsburg, like Reagan's first choice, the defeated Robert Bork, is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Last month, as one Senator after another denounced Bork's ideological views, the President promised that his next nominee would be just as objectionable to liberals as Bork had been. Reagan may have made good...
...liberals, the most disturbing thing about Ginsburg is his chief sponsor: Attorney General Edwin Meese. After watching Ginsburg during the young lawyer's two years of service in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, Meese became convinced that he was a true believer in the conservative cause, and lobbied hard for his appointment. Meese had to prevail over White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who preferred that the President nominate moderate, mainstream, conservative Judge Anthony Kennedy, an eleven-year veteran of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in California...