9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Id. at 37.
12 Hearings at 47 (opening statement of Senator Alan K. Simpson).
13 Id. at 48-49.
14 Id. at 49.
15 Id. at 48.
16 Hearings at 59, 61 (opening statement of Senator Charles E. Grassley).
17 Ibid.
18 Hearings at 85 (opening statement of Senator Gordon J. Humphrey).
19 Id. at 86.
20 Id. at 88.
21 Hearings at 103 (opening statement of Robert H. Bork to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court).
22 Ibid.
23 Id. at 103-05.
24 Hearings at 320.
25 Hearings at 314.
26 418 U.S. 153 (1974).
27 Hearings at 280.
28 Hearings at 280-83.
29 347 U.S. 497 (1954).
30 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
31 Hearings at 284.
32 J. Ely, Democracy and Distrust 32 (1980) (“[T]he Court held, in essence, that the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment incorporates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”). See, e.g., Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 93 (1976); Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 420 U.S. 636, 638 n.2 (1975).
33 Hearings at 284-85.
34 Id. at 285.
35 Ibid.
36 Id. at 287.
37 Id. at 287-88.
38 Id. at 194-236.
39 Id. at 467-69.
40 See, e.g., Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Int’l Union v. American Cyanamid Co., 741 F.2d 444 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
41 Kaus, Biden’s Belly Flop, NEWSWEEK, Sept. 28, 1987, at 23.
42 Ibid.
43 Alter & Fineman, The Fall of Joe Biden, NEWSWEEK, Oct. 5, 1987, at 28.
44 Hearings at 860.
45 The New York Times, Sept. 28, 1987, at B7 (“The Committee Democrats … kept anti-Bork witnesses with impeccable credentials in the spotlight, pushing many of the best pro-Bork witnesses into the evening hours.”).
46 1 Media Monitor No. 7, at 1, 5-6 (Center for Media and Public Affairs, Oct. 1987).
47 133 Cong. Rec. S13743 (daily ed. Oct. 7, 1987) (Sen. Conrad).
48 133 Cong. Rec. S13708 (daily ed. Oct. 7, 1987) (Sen. Exon).
49 The Washington Post, Sept. 21, 1987, at A15.
50 The Washington Post, Oct. 8, 1987, at Al.
51 Statement of Robert H. Bork, White House Press Room, Washington, D.C, Oct. 9, 1987.
52 Radio Address to the Nation on the Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be an Associate Justice, Oct. 10, 1987, 23 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1158 (Oct. 19, 1987).
53 Address to the Nation on the Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be an Associate Justice, Oct. 14, 1987, 23 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1171, 1172 (Oct. 19, 1987).
54 133 Cong. Rec. S14941 (daily ed. Oct. 23, 1987) (Sen. Danforth).
THE CHARGES AND THE RECORD: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS
1 The Biden Report and the Report of the Public Citizen Litigation Group are reprinted in 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 219, 297 (1987). Statements by the other groups listed may be found in Nomination of Robert H. Borkto be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings before the Senate Comm. on the Judiciary, 100th Cong., 1st Sess. [hereinafter Hearings], 370, 1335, 1630, 1725, 1880, 1936, 3978, 3995, 4003, 4053, 4531, 4739, 4908, 5266, 5307, 5588, 5701, 5913 (1987).
2 Hearings at 157.
3 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
4 Bork, Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, 47 Ind. L.J. 1 (1971).
5 334 U.S. 1 (1948).
6 Professors Wechsler and Henkin, both of Columbia, have noted the lack of a neutral principle behind Shelley. See Wechsler, Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law, 73 Harv. L. Rev. 1,29 (1959); Henkin, Shelley v. Kraemer, Notes for a Revised Opinion, 110 U. Pa. L. Rev. 473, 474 (1962). In addition, the Supreme Court has repeatedly refused to extend Shelley. See, e.g., Evans v. Abney, 396 U.S. 435 (1970); Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis, 407 U.S. 163 (1972); San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Comm., 483 U.S. 522 (1987).
7 383 U.S. 301 (1966).
8 383 U.S. 663 (1966).
9 383 U.S. at 670 (Black, J., dissenting); 383 U.S. at 680 (Harlan, Stewart, JJ., dissenting).
10 Butler v. Thompson, 341 U.S. 937 (1951).
11 384 U.S. 641 (1966).
12 384 U.S. at 659 (Harlan, Stewart, JJ., dissenting).
13 City of Rome v. United States, 446 U.S. 156, 200 (1980).
14 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
15 R. Bork, Constitutionality of the President’s Busing Proposals 8-13 (1972).
16 See, e.g., Hearings at 3135-45.
17 See A Response to the Critics of Judge Robert H. Bork, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 373, 438 (1987).
18 See The White House Report: Information on Judge Bork’s Qualification, Judicial Record & Related Subjects, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 187.
19 Hearings at 469.
20 United Jewish Organizations v. Carey, 430 U.S. 144 (1977).
21 Hearings at 469.
22 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Int’l Union v. American Cyanamid Co., 741 F.2d 444 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
23 See, e.g., Hearings at 3135-4-5.
24 Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971) (first Supreme Court decision analyzing gender classification under emerging intermediate standard of review).
25 Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 1981).
26 J. Ely, Democracy and Distrust 164 (1980).
27 U.S. CONST. amend. XIV, § 1.
28 118 U.S. 356 (1886).
29 See also Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190, 217 (1976) (Rehnquist, J., dissenting); Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762, 777 (1977) (Rehnquist, J., dissenting).
30 City of Cleburne, Texas v. Cleburne Living Center, 473 U.S. 432, 451 (1985) (Stevens, J., concurring).
31 Justice Department Report, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 373, 454-68 (1987).
32 Id. at 454 n. 105.
33 Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, 740 F.2d 1071 (D.C. Cir. 1984) (per curiam).
34 Hearings at 1135.
35 Id. at 1136.
36 Biden Report, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 219, 258-64 (1987).
37 Id. at 259.
38 R. Bork, The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War With Itself (197S).
39 See Justice Department Report, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 373, 486 (1987), observing that The Antitrust Paradox has been cited approvingly in: Cargill, Inc. v. Monfort of Colorado, Inc., 479 U.S. 104, 121 n.17 (1986) (Brennan, J.); Matsushita Elec. Indus, v. Zenith Radio Co., 475 U.S. 574 (1986) (Powell, J.); Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp., 472 U.S. 585 (1985) (Stevens, J.); NCAA v. Board of Regents, 468 U.S. 85, 101 (1984) (same); Reiter v. Sonotone Corp., 442 U.S. 330, 343 (1979) (Burger, C.J.); United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. 422, 442 (1978) (same).
40 Stewart, The Judicial Performance of Robert H. Bork in Administrative and Regulatory Law, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 135, 138 (1987).
41 Anthony, Judge Robert H. Bork’s Decisions in Which he Wrote No Opinion: An Analysis of the Regulatory and Benefit Cases, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 159 (1987).
42 Id. at 161.
43 Id. at 164.
44 Id. at 165.
45 Id. at 171.
46 Ibid.
47 Id. at 172.
48 Ibid.
49 Id. at 174.
50 Justice Department Report, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 373, 476-77 (1987).
51 Bork, Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, 47 Ind. L.J. 1 (1971).
52 See, e.g., Letter, “Judge Bork Replies,” ABA JOURNAL, Feb. 1984, at 132.
53 See Hearings at 271-77.
54 King, Letter from the Birmingham Jail, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Aug. 1963, at 78-88.
55 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969).
56 Oilman v. Evans, 750 F.2d 970, 973 (D.C. Cir. 1984) (en banc) (Bork, J., concurring).
57 McBride v. Merrell Dow & Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 717 F.2d 1460 (D.C Cir. 1983).
58 Telecommunications Research & Action Center v. FCC, 801 F.2d 501 (D.C. Cir
. 1986).
59 Quincy Cable TV v. FCC, 768 F.2d 1434 (D.C. Cir. 1985).
60 FTC v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 778 F.2d 35 (D.C. Cir. 1985).
61 Lebron v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, 749 F.2d 893 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
62 Finzer v. Barry, 798 F.2d 1450 (D.C. Cir. 1986).
17. WHY THE CAMPAIGN WAS MOUNTED
1 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
2 M. A. Glendon, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law: American Failures, European Challenges 2 (1987).
3 Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986); Biden Report, 9 Cardozo L. Rev. 219, 234 (1987) (“this particular vacancy—occurring at this particular time—carries historical weight”).
4 For a description and definition of the intellectual or “new class,” see I. Kristol, Two Cheers for Capitalism 25-31 (1978).
5 Conversation with Lloyd Cutler, May 20, 1989, New York, New York.
6 Tom Hurwitz quoted in Dickstein, “Columbia Recovered,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, May 15, 1988, at 32.
7 Id., quoting James Shapiro, at 68.
8 D. Bok, Beyond the Ivory Tower: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University 83 (1982), quoting H. Taylor, Students Without Teachers: The Crisis in the University 128 (1969).
9 Balch & London, The Tenured Left, COMMENTARY, vol. 82, Oct. 1986, at 41, 43.
10 Id. at 45.
11 Kissam, The Decline of Law School Professionalism, 134 U. Pa. L. Rev. 251, 271 (1986).
12 Parker, The Past of Constitutional Theory—And Its Future, 42 Ohio St. L.J. 223,257 (1981); Schlegel, Notes Toward an Intimate, Opinionated, and Affectionate History of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 391, 406 (1984).
13 Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1989, 25 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 99, 100 (Jan. 27, 1989).
14 Puddington, The Soul of the Left’s Machine, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, no. 13, Fall 1988, at 111.
15 As quoted in P. Hollander, The Survival of the Adversary Culture 15152 (1988).
16 Id. at 152.
17 Lerner, “Cleaning Up the Mess,” The Washington Times, June 27, 1988, at D1.
18 Introduction to A. Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind 18 (1987).
19 A. Bickel, The Morality of Consent 137, 140 (1975).
20 Id.
21 Lacayo, The Battle Begins, TIME, July 13, 1987, at 10.
18. EFFECTS FOR THE FUTURE
1 The Washington Post, Nov. 13, 1987, at All.
2 Bork, Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, 47 Ind. L.J. 1 (1971).
3 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Int’l Union v. American Cyanamid Co., 741 F.2d 444 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
CONCLUSION
1 J. H. (Cardinal) Newman, The Development of Christian Doctrine 7 (1968).
2 E. Burke, Speech on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation With the Colonies (Mar. 22, 1775), reprinted in 1 The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke 181, 200 (H. G. Bohn ed. 1841).
3 R. Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America 255 (1984).
4 R. Bolt, A Man For All Seasons 65-66 (1962).
5 Id. at 66.
6 R. W. Chambers, Thomas More 268 (1962).
7 E. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France 74 (T. Mahoney ed. 1955).
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