You may not like it, but this is what a peak judicial appointments process looks like.
Adam S. Rust
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Lawyer, writes on law things, writings have appeared in Liberal Currents and Balls & Strikes, based in the SF Bay Area.
![""heights [of public debate] that it repeatedly reached" and for the extent to which it "captivated and involved [the] citizenry." It was out of these hearings, and the surrounding public debate on the airwaves, on op-ed pages, and around office water coolers, that "widespread popular opposition" to Bork arose. Consider a sequence of three Washington Post-ABC News polls. The first, taken in early August 1987, roughly a month after Reagan had nominated Bork, found that only about 45 percent of respondents had heard or read about the Bork nomination; of those who were aware of it, 45 percent supported the nomi-nation and 40 percent opposed it. 53 The second, taken during and after Bork's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, found that 70 percent of respondents were aware of the nomination; of those who were aware, 44 percent supported Bork and 48 percent opposed him. 54 The third poll, taken about ten days before the Senate rejected his nomination, found that 78 percent of respondents were aware of the nomination, and of them, only 38 percent supported Bork, while 52 percent opposed him. Clearly, the hearings and the attendant media attention not only significantly increased public awareness of the nomi-nation; they also significantly increased opposition to it, and it was this opposition that sank Bork."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w5gcgk27r4amcg2n5mutfin4/bafkreidrxkvddyz4bokiaqjuc7v4wk4dacfauhrps47d2wn3k5yvskmhhi)
