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  1. Xref: sparky alt.society.civil-liberty:6582 alt.activism:18883 alt.politics.usa.constitution:1084 soc.history:9444 talk.politics.theory:4940
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  3. From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.activism,alt.politics.usa.constitution,soc.history,talk.politics.theory
  5. Subject: Re: [ACLU] Guardian of Liberty: American Civil Liberties Union
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.211433.19464@sei.cmu.edu>
  7. Date: 16 Nov 92 21:14:33 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: sei.1992Nov16.211433.19464
  9. References: <BxtFLA.6oD@cs.uiuc.edu>
  10. Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
  11. Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
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  15. In article <BxtFLA.6oD@cs.uiuc.edu>, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
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  18. |>      1987: Block Bork
  19. |>        The ACLU, changing a 51-year-old policy of
  20. |>        neutrality on Supreme Court candidates, mounted
  21. |>        a national campaign to defeat the nomination of
  22. |>        Judge Robert Bork.  Bork, the ACLU said, posed
  23. |>        an extraordinary threat to fundamental liberties
  24. |>        guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, and to the role
  25. |>        of the Supreme Court as the guardian of those
  26. |>        rights.  A majority of Senators agreed and rejected
  27. |>        his nomination.
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  30. This alone is enough to keep me from ever entertaining membership -- Bork
  31. knows more Constitutional Law than the ACLU's 2000 attorneys put together.
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  33. Rich
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