get bork. it's now in the dictionaries of the united states and, and the world, it's called "tting borked." (gavel pounds) >> narrator: joe biden, the chairman, got much of the credit for bringi bork down. >> he's proud of what we did on thcourt. we shaped the direction of the court for 30 years. we kept that majority in place, basically the warren court consensus on the court, on a lot of these issues, in place for 30 yes. nothing to be ashamed of, very,p very itant. >> ...senator from ktucky. i hank the chair. >> narrator: but bork's defeat was a searing experience for first-term senator mitch mcconnell. enraged, he took to the senate floor. >> and so to robert bo, you happened to be the one who set the new senate standard that will be applied, in my judgmen by a majority of the senate prospectively. unfortunately, it got set over your dead body, so to speak, politically. >> narrator: mcconnell threatened that he and his republican colleagues would use the same tactics when mattered. >> we're

us to come out against bork early.p is the 45 liberals in the senate and we wouldn't win. >> so biden found himself running two campaigns, one against robert bork, another for president and they were pulling him in different directions. >> my name is joe biden. i'd like to be the democratic nominee for president of the united states of america. >> in iowa, an early caucus state that mattered most, biden was bunched with others but his attention was split. >> there was a mismatch between the expectation of joe and what was going on in the campaign. the sort of basic stuff wasn't getting done. >> but that was nothing compared to what unfolded next. >> live from the iowa state fairgrounds in des moines. election '88. >> at the end of a key debate at the iowa state fair, biden used some of his stump speech which included quotes from british politician neil kinic, a pop list life story politically compelling but it wasn't biden's life and it was delivered without any attribution. >> why is it joe biden -- >> what am i? the

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did read robert bork's book, the tempting of america and i was fortunate enough to get a clerkship at the supreme court, the author was from justice powell who was then a retired justice. i'm retired justice the court gets one law clerk. was his one law clerk for that year, 18991-'92 and get to decide to work with another chamber, an active justice's chamber and i defend wanted would bork wore justice scalia and if you know my past that wouldn't haven't been your first guess. so why is it that in 1991 i wanted to work for justice scalia? well, this is the thing think most law students, understand. reading judicial opinion is usually not a lot of fun i. think this is where lawyers acquire the habit of drinking more coffee than is good for them. these innovator charles dickens novels. caffeine gets through you, how refreshing when you're doing this to come across a justice scalia majority opinion, dissent or concurrence, and it -- they stood out for the lively unless of the writing, the honesty, the quest for truth. i could have cared less whether justice school where was a textualist,

lot of other countries in yugoslavia other countries and now unfortunately that same dreadful way bork is brought to the united states i mean going to do their duty while they still have your child while you can here 20 seconds left or to let you know here is your scenario is interesting but trump will still be around so you know there are still going to be that tension and if trump supporters believe it was stolen from them they aren't going to defend who they think is the rightfully elected president of the united states gentlemen that's all the time we have reconvene next next sunday and we'll talk about this here i want to thank my guests in budapest and here in moscow i want to thank our viewers for watching us here are you see x. time remember across the us thank you. the bill will run with the big table of the reset and. global powers decide who pays what and according to what you're saying there looks like. the u.s. to pay the most because that economy is the worst in terms of how abusive it's been in using the world reserve currency the u.s. dollar to expand its empire. to the

we could go back and look at what famous judges, legal scholars like robert bork and richard pozen are, go through and look at what they wrote, and it was doublespeak here in america and it was fantastically sophisticated. that's why we got suckered into this because they came up with something that was truly it was drafted in the most awesomely confusing package and we thought as they took off regulations that were making us free, we thought they were making us free and so here we are a generation later and we realize wait, we needed those rules and regulations. we needed to use those tools in that way. but the neoliberal revolution the only real thing that ever happened in the united states was they succeeded because they took it and made it an intellectual coup. they changed the terminology through which we understand the world. our challenge now is to awaken not just to the threat of google or facebook that to the real power that we have because we have more to do than just take care of google and facebook. >> so if you were to sit there and say the three, four or five things the n

i tide read robert bork's book, the tempting of america and when i got a clerkship at the supreme court the author was justice paul, who was then a retired justice. each retired justice gets one law clerk i was his one law quicker for that year, 1991-92 and you get to decide to perhaps work with another chambers, and i decided i wanted to work for justice scalia, which if you had known my past and background and my family that won't have been your first guess. so why is it that in 1991, i wanted to work for justice scalia? well, this if the thing i think most law students, understand, reading judicial opinions as i have toed a miss and the author is usually not a lot of fun. this is where lawyers acquire the habit of drinking more coffee then is good for them. those are not charles dickens novels. caffeine gets you through. how refreshing to come across a justice scalia majority opinion, dissent or concurrence. they stood out for the liveliness of the writing, the honest clerks -- the honesty, the quest for truth. so i could have cared list if he was a textualist, constitutionalist, he

. >> when bork got taken down, they promised never to forgive. it it was raw politics, an was war. tafore me... >> she could be on the u.s. supreme court for 30 maybe even 40 years. >> we're living in the era of the mcconnell court now. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs statiofrom viewers like you. thank you. public broadcasting.on for major support is provided by the john d. and caerine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more jt, verdant and peaceful world. more information at cfound.org. the ford foundation: working with visionaries on the ontlines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation,el committed to ence in journalism. the park foundation, dedicated to heighteublic awareness of critical issues. and by thee frontlurnalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from laura debos and scott nathan. captioned by access.wgbh.orgoup at wgbh >> for more on this and other "frontline" programs, visit our website at pbs.org/frontline. ♪ frontline's,

i think they go back to watergate and conservatives starting with bob bork's firing of archibald cox. i think there are important constraints that need to be taken into account. if i could say a few quick words about the book that ted conley mentioned, the book is not all about presidential power. in several instances we argued for enhancing the power of the attorney general and ultimately the president. two examples are, we think the mueller investigation showed that attorney general barr did not have adequate control of legal interpretations for the executive branch, that the regulations were not adequately clear on that, and that needs to be clarified. we also think it was a huge mistake, that it wasn't clear in justice department policies that the attorney general has to make the hard call, not the fbi director. and a whole slew of things, criminal opening up investigations for the president. in some issues, there's been a 50 year consensus that certain things like conflicts of interest, corruption, text disclosure, these were things conservatives were always in favor of, but assi

i watched over the years, in part because i had first seen him participate in the bork hearings. that got mid my interested -- tt got me interested in the senate. that got my interested as a teenager to be a senate page. i later became a senate page appointed by senator hatch. i saw him carry out his activities as a member of the senate judiciary committee. from then on i watched with careful attention when he was handling a judicial confirmation hearing. i watched through the years as he handled the hearings of individuals such as justice alito, my former boss. in each instance, he treated judicial nominees and literally hundreds of others like them with dignity and respect but also with the amount of thorough attention that a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary demands. in addition to this, he also liked to try to foster in others a genuine interest in the law. i remember when i was serving as a law clerk to federal district judge dee benson in salt lake city, one of the brightest and most capable jurists ever to serve on the federal bench, whether in utah or anywhere