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...Professor Hal S. Scott, a friend andcolleague of Ginsburg since high school, blamedthe press for the failure of the jurist'snomination...
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...
WASHINGTON--The Senate rejected President Reagan's nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote yesterday, ending a long and contentious debate over a judge alternately portrayed as a brilliant jurist and a dangerous extremist...
Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, who recently testified against Bork, said the committee's recommendation not to confirm Bork as retiring Justice Lewis F. Powell's successor erases any chance the conservative jurist still may have had to serve on the High Court...
Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 also hailed the Senate committee's vote against the conservative jurist...