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Article: Why Judge Bork Was Rejected
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 7, 2009
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In his otherwise enlightening piece on shepherding Supreme Court
nominees through the confirmation process ["How to Scale the High
Court," Outlook, May 24], Tom Korologos suggested that Judge Robert
H. Bork's nomination was defeated because Judge Bork was simply too
conservative. This is revisionist history.
As demonstrated by the fact that Justice Antonin Scalia was
overwhelmingly confirmed by essentially the same Senate, the fatal
flaw was not Judge Bork's ideology or any of the other factors Mr.
Korologos mentioned. Rather, two substantive drawbacks emerged in
the confirmation process, both relevant to the looming battle over
Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination.
The first was Judge ...