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Article: Judge Bork on the Bench
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 12, 1987
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AMONG THE MANY documents that will be considered by the Senate
during the debate on Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme
Court are the opinions he has written during the past five years on
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
There are 138 of them. In themselves they do not give a complete
picture, since a judge's work product is determined by the kind of
cases he is assigned. In addition, an appellate court judge is bound
to follow precedents set by the Supreme Court even when he disagrees
with them, so his own personal views may not come through. Still,
amid the many dozens of cases that are of very little general
interest-and occasionally stunningly ...