In "The Ugliness Started With Bork," the NYT's Joe Nocera notes the anniversary of the rejection of Robert Bork's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and calls it the beginning of the end of civil discourse in politics. Bork's own reflections in a recent Newsweek interview are here. And here are Linda Greenhouse's thoughts, ten years out.
Photo: Straight out of central casting for a role as a barrister in a Masterpiece Theatre production, Robert Bork's official photo as a federal judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
