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Article: THE ETHICS OF CONFIRMING ROBERT BORK / THE FACT THAT BORK IS NEITHER A CONVENTIONAL CONSERVATIVE NOR A CONVENTIONAL JURIST MAKES HIS SUPREME COURT BID DEBATEABL
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- September 19, 1987
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NEW YORK - As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on
Judge Robert H. Bork, what's to be made of the ease with which
another Reagan nominee, Judge William S. Sessions, sailed through
his confirmation hearings before that same committee?
Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, fell all
over themselves to praise him. Both the committee and the Senate
clearly will approve him as the new director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, although Sessions is unquestionably a conservative
and has earned a reputation as a tough law-and-order man. But
colleagues in the Western District of Texas consider him eminently