bucy wrote:
] ] WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 - Many liberal women have never
] ] forgiven Senator Arlen Specter for his pointed
] ] questioning of Prof. Anita F. Hill, whose accusations of
] ] sexual harassment against Judge Clarence Thomas, then a
] ] Supreme Court nominee, riveted the nation. But
] ] conservatives have never forgiven him for crossing party
] ] lines to defeat another Supreme Court nominee, Judge
] ] Robert H. Bork.
]
] Look up Bork if you've never heard of him before (I couldn't
] find something to blog immediately) ... he was nominated to
] the Supreme Court towards the end of Reagan's presidency.

Often cited as the sorce of the slang "its borked" to refer to something broken.

RE: Bork Hearings Resurface as Impediment to Specter