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Article: Judge Bork-The Folklore
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 25, 1987
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THE VOTE on Robert Bork is in danger of passing not into history,
but into folklore. The dueling ballads are already being written on
both sides. The forces of (good or evil, check your choice) defeat a
badly needed return to first principles or underhanded effort to
reverse a quarter century of social progress. The hardest thing
about the whole affair may be now to demythologize it.
As they did in the fight, so now in the enshrining of it, both
sides go too far. The embittered losers say a kept and frightened
Senate caved in to a nasty campaign by left-of-center advocacy groups
that felt they stood to lose if Judge Bork were confirmed. A pure
and refreshingly democratic view of the ...