Article: Judging Judge Bork

WE PRINT today a letter from Joseph Rauh, the ageless counsel to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, taking unhappy issue with our posture thus far on the nomination of Robert Bork to be a justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Rauh's basic view of the matter is pretty simple. Judge Bork comes out wrong on the issues; that's reason enough to oppose him; and it's wrong, not to say naive, to criticize those who do. You have here a rousing political fight pure and simple, involving particularly the rights of individuals and minorities against the mass. The only serious question is whether you're for such rights or against.

But of course it's a little more complicated than that. Mr. Rauh ...

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