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Article: The frantic reflagging of Bork; voila! The centrist. (Supreme Court Nominee Robert H. Bork)
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- The Nation
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- September 19, 1987
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THE FRANTIC REFLAGGING OF BORK
The campaign to put Judge Robert Bork on the Supreme Court is built on a Big Lie: that Bork is a moderate, flexible centrist like retired Justice Lewis Powell Jr., whom he was nominated to replace. The White House, Washington corporate lawyer Lloyd Cutler and Bork himself have all worked industriously to cover up what Bork really is--a rigid far-right activist who is not at all hesitant about using whatever power he has to further his ideology.
A few weeks after President Reagan nominated Bork, Cutler rushed to print with a piece on the New York Times Op-Ed page. Writing as "a liberal Democrat and as an advocate of civil ...