https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...hip-460385

Interesting article on how Biden & McConnell have interacted over the years. Seems like Bork was a key moment.

"...Biden agreed, but also seemed to realize that he had done something to alter the way the Senate approached judicial nominations. Recalling the July 1987 speech, he wrote in his 2007 memoir that “there have not been many moments in my thirty four years in the senate when I believed I had helped change the course of the institution but as I came to the end of that speech, I had that feeling.”


He had changed the Senate and also changed Mitch McConnell.

Taking to the Senate floor in October 1987, a furious McConnell contended that the defeat of Bork meant the Senate should be honest about its new standard for Supreme Court picks...."

Long article but good read. Some pretty damning stuff on Obama in there.

The defeat of the Bork nomination was a huge turning-point for American conservatives. There is a direct line between that result, and the subsequent nominations of Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

(01-22-2021 12:30 PM)bullet Wrote:  Long article but good read. Some pretty damning stuff on Obama in there.

Good article. Obama is exactly who we think he is.

(01-22-2021 01:16 PM)No Bull Wrote:  

(01-22-2021 12:30 PM)bullet Wrote:  Long article but good read. Some pretty damning stuff on Obama in there.

Good article. Obama is exactly who we think he is.

And note that this is Politico which is kind of the establishment Democrat insider website.