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Before the Judiciary Committee began its hearings on Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court, Specter was considered one of three undecided Senators on the 14-member panel. During a tough, often dazzling interrogation of the nominee, he seemed to be leaning away from Bork. But last week, after the...
Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston, D-Calif., told reporters Tuesday that his latest head-count shows 49 senators likely to oppose Bork, 40 likely to support him and 11 undecided.
Several Senators on the panel did not take such a sanguine view of Bork's philosophical backpedaling. Before the hearing, many lawmakers were concerned that Bork was too rigid in his conservative ideology. During the judge's testimony, they wondered aloud if he was, instead, too changeable. "What troubles me...
In his testimony last week, however, Bork said the 14th Amendment should apply to women -- or any individual -- who might be subject to government- sanctioned discrimination that did not pass a "reasonable basis" test. But he sidestepped attempts to pin him down on what sort of discrimination might be "reasonable...
If they are right, Shultz and Shevardnadze can devote much of their time in Moscow next month to setting the date for a summit and the itinerary for a possible Gorbachev tour of the U.S. American officials think the most probable time will be mid-to-late November. While the...