Word: ginsburgs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn to the right has been accelerated by the arrival of Justice Kennedy, the latest Reagan addition to the court, who is serving his first full term. Kennedy replaced Lewis Powell, a moderate conservative on race questions, after the collapse of the nominations of Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg. "The civil rights community mounted this great offensive against Robert Bork," says Walter Burns of the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "Now they're getting what they feared, without him on the court...
Lack of interest is also one of the reasons Gorm H. Ginsberg '89 cites for his decision not to go for honors. "The most important thing is to have some kind of intense experience before you leave [Harvard], but not necessarily academic," Ginsburg says...
...places we thought we would win, but we did not win by as much as we thought we would," said Larry Ginsburg, Holt's campaign manager...
Last fall when the Supreme Court nomination of Douglas Ginsburg vanished in a puff of marijuana smoke, more than a dozen of his contemporaries, including Presidential Hopefuls Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, rushed forward to admit that they too had succumbed to reefer madness. Most confessions were formulaic: "I once tried pot as an experiment. I did not enjoy it, and I deeply regret my foolish behavior." Few ambitious baby boomers are willing to talk honestly about what they learned from '60s-era dabbling in soft drugs for fear of sounding as if they were about to check...
...Douglas Ginsburg was a Baby Boomer of sorts himself, and though not a political candidate, he would have been the first of his generation to have become a Supreme Court justice. But he too fell victim to the same pattern. It began with questions about his competence: What scholarship had he really done? How many cases had he ever argued? Had he proved himself as a legal mind worthy of the Court? Soon it mushroomed into questions about his character, with the final blow being the revelation that he smoked marijuana while a Harvard law professor...