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Article: Judging Judge Bork
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 16, 1987
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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 ...