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- verb US, politics To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
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EVIDENCE OF EXTREMISM Judge Alito's extraordinary praise of Judge Bork is unsettling, given that Judge Bork's radical legal views included rejecting the Supreme Court's entire line of privacy cases, even its 1965 ruling striking down a state law banning sales of contraceptives.
January 2006 2006
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Bork is talking about buying water filters at part of the supplies she is taking down.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: September 2005 Archives 2005
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Bork is talking about buying water filters at part of the supplies she is taking down.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: More Resources from Zagg 2005
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And we also remember that the word Bork became a-- a verb.
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Oh, I don't know, does the name Bork bring anything to mind?
Conservative Outpost Skip MacLure 2010
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But Bork is an example of why I think ideology shouldn’t be off limits in nomination battles.
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I like to think that Slouching was written in Bork’s senile years after he had been brainwashed by AEIPPR.
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And in Bork’s case, it was good thing, as his subsequent publications have demonstrated (see here).
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Great Law School Dean Doesn’t Have to be a Great Scholar 2010
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But Bork is an example of why I think ideology shouldn’t be off limits in nomination battles.
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To paraphrase Bork the English poet, not the rejected US Supreme Court nominee, silence sometimes can speak.
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