[Mb-civic] Bork's Shadow Looms Over Court Opening - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Bork's Shadow Looms Over Court Opening

Defeat of '87 Nomination a Model for Liberals, a Lesson for Conservatives

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 12, 2005; Page A01

The beard is gone. Once scraggly and reddish, it had long since turned 
scraggly and white, and so finally he shaved it off. "It was time to 
go," he said.

<>But if the cleanshaven Robert H. Bork is no longer recognized and 
approached at airports, his image remains vividly etched in the minds of 
official Washington. Now 18 years after his fireworks-filled 
confirmation battle and crushing defeat in the Senate, the long shadow 
of Bork hangs over another pending court appointment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/11/AR2005071101670.html 

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