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Kennedy's case-by-case approach means that it is hard to make sweeping generalizations about how he would rule on the great legal issues facing the Supreme Court: affirmative action, Government involvement with religion, abortion and privacy rights. Says Deputy Solicitor General Donald Ayers, who argued several cases before Kennedy: "I always had the sense that he approaches each case with no predilection about who will be the winners or losers." Kozinski asserts that Kennedy sometimes is open to change even after reaching a preliminary decision. When clerks had trouble framing an opinion according to the judge's instructions...
...former Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than carry out President Nixon's order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Bork, then solicitor general, ultimately handled the dismissal...
When Bork was appointed by Richard Nixon as Solicitor General in 1973, the Indiana Law Review article prompted widespread fears that the office was about to be hopelessly politicized. After only five weeks on the job, he was called to the White House by Nixon Aide Alexander Haig and asked to run the President's Watergate defense. After some indecision, Bork ultimately maneuvered his way out, in part because Nixon refused to let him listen to the White House tapes. Three months later came the Saturday Night Massacre. Bork's name became a household word overnight when, as acting Attorney...
...gift when Robert Bork was named Solicitor General, his Yale law students gave him a construction worker's hard hat with his new title on it. That was , in 1973, when a hard hat still symbolized the bareknuckle school of conservatism. Bork's own methods of persuasion are a good deal less belligerent, but the joke was to the point. He had built his reputation as a legal hard-liner, both for his narrow reading of the Constitution and for the conservative results of such analysis. When he moved later into the offices of a federal judge, he brought...
...White House's depiction of Bork is a "campaign of misinformation," according to Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. In coordinating the anti-Bork coalition, Neas and his allies have reviewed Bork's record as a Yale Law School professor, U.S. Solicitor General and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...