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Article: The trials and tribulations of getting to court; after Bork. (Robert Bork)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- November 2, 1987
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The trials and tribulations of getting to court
The result had seemed inevitable for weeks. But it took three days of Senate debate--and a plea from Robert Bork himself to end it--before the die was formally cast. When the antagonists finished castigating each other for "politicizing' Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nomination, an expected 58-to-42 vote, mostly along party lines, consigned the 60-year-old appeals judge last Friday to the footnotes of history.
Bork's controversial views on privacy and civil rights got him the most attention of any court nominee in recent memory, but he was just the latest in a series of jurists to stir political firefights ...