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Article: A chance for Bork . . . and Roberts.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2005
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Byline: Bruce Fein, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Robert H. Bork should be asked by President George W. Bush to testify as the premier public witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor John G. Roberts, Jr., Mr. Bush's nominee as chief justice of the United States. To paraphrase the Gettysburg Address, it is altogether fitting and proper that President Bush should do this.
Mr. Bork, an unfairly defeated Supreme Court nominee, deserves an opportunity to clear his good name, akin to the Senate expunging a defamatory blot on President Andrew Jackson in 1837. Mr. Bork's 1987 confirmation hearings, captained by then Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden, ...
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