home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- January 25, 1988NATIONBork: I'm No Bench Warmer
-
-
- For Robert Bork, the battle may be over, but the war goes on.
- The White House announced that President Reagan's controversial
- Supreme Court nominee would step down from the D.C. Circuit
- Court of Appeals. In his resignation letter, Bork stated that
- he wants the time and freedom to rebut charges of right-wing
- zealotry that liberal lobbying groups fired at him last year
- during his unsuccessful Senate confirmation fight. "This was
- a public campaign of miseducation," wrote Bork, "to which, as
- a sitting federal judge, I felt I could not publicly respond."
-
- Had it not been for the Supreme Court nomination, Bork might
- have left the bench earlier. He had not hired law clerks for
- the coming term, and he was obviously restless. "I don't think
- he finds judging all that interesting," says his D.C. circuit
- colleague Abner Mikva. Why, then, did Bork hand on so long
- after his defeat? Says Heritage Foundation Legal Expert Bruce
- Fein: "He didn't want this to look like the peevish decision
- of an upset boy."
-
-