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Originally posted by baltassoc
Wait, she had a pivotal role in the largest scandal ever to rock the executive branch, ensuring not only that any nomination of her is never going to succeed, but also creating an entirely unnecessary pretense and drawn out political battle for all judicial nominations going forward, thereby tarnishing not just one branch of govenment, as she had done 15 years prior, but actually getting the trifecta?
Or do you mean something else by being "Borked"?
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I am very glad that he is not on the Supreme Court, but I have yet to see a convincing argument that Bork did anything wrong in 1973, particularly not that "tarnished the [Executive] Branch of government."
S_A_M
FWIW, both of his fired/resigned superiors, Eliot Richardson and [the other one] counseled/urged Bork to keep his position for the good of DOJ -- and thus to fire the IC. Only so many of the top leaders can fall on their swords over a principle without it severely damaging the operations of the Department.
As symbolic gestures of protest which appropriately damaged the Nixon presidency, the first two resignations were enough.
