![]() ![]() Vice President Bush, asked whether he will be more involved in this confirmation battle than he was with Bork's, said, "If it gets to be 50-50, I will do my part." He said he expected the Judiciary Committee to rely heavily on whatever recommendation the ABA makes now, and that the lobbying of the bar association by both sides will be "ferocious." Bruce Fein, a legal scholar with the Heritage Foundation who had strongly backed Bork, said that "the White House has played into the hand of the liberals" with the nomination and said the outcome was "very dicey."įein pointed out that Ginsburg had received only a recommendation of "qualified," the lowest of three acceptable ratings from the American Bar Association, when he was nominated to the federal appeals court 11 months ago. Dole (R-Kan.), while saying he would support Ginsburg "based on what I know," anticipated opposition and made no predictions of confirmation. However, Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Hatch (R-Utah) said that "conservatives should be happy" because Ginsburg "is a believer in judicial restraint." Humphrey (R-N.H.) said that "conservatives are delighted the president is hanging tough." And Sen. If his philosophy is as extreme as Bork, I will do all I can to see that the nomination is not confirmed."īut Sen. "What is most ominous about the nomination at this stage is the suggestion that Ed Meese prevailed upon the president, with little consideration, to name an ideological clone of Judge Bork - a Judge Bork without a paper trail - instead of a real conservative who would have broad support in the Senate," Kennedy said. Kennedy (D-Mass.), a leader in the fight against Bork, the president may have succeeded in this objective. 13 speech to New Jersey Republicans that he would find another high court nominee "they'll object to as much as they did to this one." Based on the response of Sen. Bork, Reagan's previous nominee to the court, was rejected on a 58-to-42 vote, and Reagan promised in an angry Oct. Conservatives cheered the choice, while liberals were critical or noncommittal. ![]() Kennedy, 51, a more moderate appeals court judge from Sacramento. The nomination of Ginsburg surprised senators, many of whom know little of him or his record and had expected the president to select Anthony M. the rights of the victims of crime and the rights of society." Reagan announced Ginsburg's selection to an audience of administration officials and conservative supporters in the East Room, saying that Ginsburg shared his view "that the courts must administer fair and firm justice while remembering not just the rights of criminals but. that he is likely to face confirmation difficulties. Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, a choice that White House officials acknowledged is likely to touch off another bitter confirmation battle in the Democratic-controlled Senate.Īdministration officials said that Reagan chose Ginsburg, a 41-year-old former deputy assistant attorney general who has been on the appeals court here for less than a year, after a strongly favorable recommendation from Attorney General Edwin Meese III and despite warnings from White House chief of staff Howard H. President Reagan yesterday nominated conservative appeals Judge Douglas H. ![]()
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