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Article: IN THE 1987 BATTLE OVER ROBERT BORK'S NOMINATION, LIBERALS SHOWED THEY HAD LEARNED WELL FROM CONSERVATIVES, USING THEIR STRATEGIES TO KEEP HIM OFF THE SUPREME COURT PASSING JUDGMENT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 27, 1989
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ISSUES FOR THE GLOBE. THIS IS EXCERPTED FROM BATTLE FOR
JUSTICE: HOW THE BORK NOMINATION SHOOK AMERICA, WHICH WILL
BE PUBLISHED NEXT MONTH BY W. W. NORTON & COMPANY.
It was every liberal's nightmare: a Supreme Court not just with
an emerging conservative majority, like the current court, but one
veering rightward forcefully and irrevocably on a wide range of
issues, including race relations, women's rights, free speech, and
constitutional privacy. That was what the fight over the nomination
of Robert Bork two years ago was all about. Bork, one of the most
eloquent and hard-driving spokesmen of the right, would have helped
alter the nation's social and legal agenda in ...