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...most part, however, Bork found life on the D.C. Appeals Court, with its heavy diet of technical regulatory issues, unexciting. When his colleague and friend Antonin Scalia was named to fill a 1986 Supreme Court vacancy, Bork was gracious publicly but privately irritated, fearing that Reagan would leave office before another seat opened up. Last spring, shortly before he was nominated to replace Lewis Powell, Bork decided not to hire clerks for the 1988 term, opening the way for his resignation at the end of Reagan's term...
...steps outside his home two years ago, he began losing control of his now Falstaffian weight. A series of exercise machines -- a rowing machine, cross-country machine, stationary bicycle -- sit broken or largely unused in his attic. Bork has taken up poker in a floating game that regularly includes Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Education Secretary William Bennett and others. Bork is a popular addition: he is so unknowledgeable about the game that he keeps a list of winning hands beside his chair. "I never played poker before," says he, "and I think I'm paying...
...left, in particular, has waged its fight with an almost palpable sense of vengeance. Some liberals want to make up for their leadership's rather lax opposition to the promotion of William Rehnquist to Chief Justice and the appointment of conservative Antonin Scalia to the court last year. Moreover, with only 16 months remaining in the Reagan Administration, the Bork issue has become a device to galvanize and unify the disparate interest groups on the left. Neas is overseeing a "megacoalition" of prominent liberal organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P., Common Cause, People for the American Way, the National Organization for Women...
Blackmun is the third-oldest member of the court after Justices William j. Brennan, 81, and Thurgood Marshall, 79. The others are Byron R. White, 70; Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 62; John Paul Stevens, 67; Sandra Day O'Connor, 57 and Antonin Scalia...
...wonder then that the fight shaping up over Judge Robert Bork, 60, the conservative legal scholar nominated by Reagan last week, promises to be far fiercer than anything that met the President's earlier appointments of Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia. By giving the court's right wing a decisive fifth vote, the addition of Bork could be as pivotal as the 1962 appointment of Arthur Goldberg, which consolidated the liberal majority that worked the Warren Court revolution...