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Monday, May 4, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Democrats say next nominee no shoo-in for Supreme Court
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A key Senate Democrat warned yesterday that the White House should not assume Robert Bork's apparent defeat will mean that the next Supreme Court nominee faces easy victory.
"I don't think anybody should share the illusion . . . that the next nominee will sail through like a greased pig no matter what that nominee may be like," said Sen. Alan Cranston, the Democratic whip. "We'll take a hard look at the nominee."
Bork surprised lawmakers — and apparently, the White House — when he said Friday that he would continue his fight for the nomination, even
though 53 senators are publicly opposing his nomination, according to an Associated Press survey.
White House strategists have indicated they hope for quick confirmation of a new, conservative nominee after the Senate votes on Bork. That vote is now expected to be later this month.
Cranston, D-Calf., said on ABC TV's "This Week With David Brinkley" that a successful nomination would have to be "somebody who doesn't commit an agenda that combines with the extreme right wants in our country."
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was asked whether the long
battle over Bork might mean that picking a new justice could fall to the next president.
"In the past, there have been suggestions they (Democrats) adopt the Strom Thurmdt tactic — which as you remember, as of June of the year before Carter left office, the announcement went out, no more judges," he said in an interview on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation."
But Biden said he hoped Democrats would avoid such a move. As it is, the high court could face months without a ninth judge, he said.
Meanwhile, the White House and Bork supporters in the Senate were working on ways to gain political points from the floor showdown.
Lawmakers say defeats hurt Reagan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The likely rejection of Robert Bork as President Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court marks the low ebb in Reagan's worst year on Capitol Hill, and lawmakers say the president has responded to defeats by growing even more confrontational.
The White House apparently is reacting to its loss of control over the Senate in the 1986 elections.
"They are following a scorched-earth policy," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. "Veto, threaten veto, vote no, filibuster, stall, delay. It's a no-win policy. All of this energy could be expended for good and for progress."
The year has yielded a string of
losses for the administration. The year began badly when Reagan vetored two major spending measures — the clean water bill and a highway authorization act. Both vetoes were overridden by Congress.
Later, Reagan sought to make budget reform a top domestic policy priority, making speeches around the country to drum up interest. But while that public campaign was successful, other cans complained that the president was sitting out in the real budget fight then going on in Congress.
The result was that Reagan was torced to sign a renewal of the Gun Control Act. He lost the law last month, about which he had little say. This move could put
Added to those failures was the summer-long spectacle of the Iran-contra hearings, which revealed the nature of some of the president's top advisers.
him in the position of either giving up defense spending increases or raising taxes — something he has sworn not to do.
On the foreign policy front, Reagan is still pursuing a quest for $270 million in aid to Nicaragua's contrasts, even though Democrats say that the president should peace accord in Central America. And, last week, the president was forced to abandon efforts to sell Maverick missiles to Saudi Arabia.
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