OPINION: Borked!! GOP’s long game finally bringing nightmare of Robert Bork’s America to Supreme Court | Will Bunch
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It took more than three decades, but it looks like
And what an irony! The
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It's a watershed moment for a nation now engaged in a great ideological civil war -- a time when a president who has more Americans wanting his impeachment than approving of his job performance is about to place his second stamp on the
One way to figure out where this is going is to see it as the climatic last-battle chapter in an epic that started on
The political conflagration over Bork was one that few saw coming. Traditionally, any opposition to
Bork would later complain that
In the end, it was two "Area Men" -- then.-
The episode showed in many ways how the battles of the 1960s and early 1970s morphed into America's perpetual civil wars.
But the
The political right also adopted "Borked!" as a verb -- a rallying cry for their ideological brothers and sisters they thought treated so unfairly -- but the reality is that the Bork battle started an escalating tit-for-tat by both parties. Both
When the
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So who's Borking who, at this point?
In theory, there should be valuable lessons for the
"I assume the
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Meanwhile, it's hard to figure out what was so unfair about
One person who didn't make it to see
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