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I'd guess Robert Bork had more to do with it than the popular vote. Nixon might have promised him a Supreme Court seat for his other famous historical service,
by hotpotamus 3y ago
I'd guess Robert Bork had more to do with it than the popular vote. Nixon might have promised him a Supreme Court seat for his other famous historical service, but his nomination was famously shot down on a somewhat bipartisan basis (Biden was the Judiciary Chairman at the time).
- RickJWagner 3y agoThe action was vicious enough that the term 'Borked' was coined for it.
- hotpotamus 3y agoIf putting it to a full senate vote is vicious, then you might need to find some even stronger words for what happened to a few other nominees.