Article: The Bork Nomination

THE UNCHARACTERISTIC silence in this space over the past couple of weeks on a hot, controversial topic has been the silence of second thoughts. When Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, we hoped and expected to be able to support his confirmation-comfortably and unequivocally-even though his political inclinations are far from our own. Those many aspects of the campaign against him that did not resemble an argument so much as a lynching only reinforced our original instinct. But we find, at the end of a period of total immersion in the subject-the written record, the testimony for and against Judge Bork and, most tellingly, the testimony by him-that we cannot.

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