On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:15 pm Post subject: Arlen Specter is dead |
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Can't say I followed his career too closely. I do remember him from the Clarnece Thomas hearings. I was probably aware that he had switched to the Democrats in 2009, but quickly forgot about it.
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Specter first gained national attention as a young prosecutor, who, as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, was seen as the main architect of the controversial �single-bullet theory� that claimed the same bullet killed President John F. Kennedy and wounded then-Texas Gov. John Connally, notes the Washington Post. That theory was the focus of the 1991 film JFK. In the Senate he was �long regarded as its sharpest legal mind,� points out the New York Times. Besides his party switch, he�ll likely most be remembered by the key role he played in several Supreme Court nominations, helping defeat conservative nominee Robert Bork in 1987 as well as securing Clarence Thomas�s confirmation by aggressively questioning law professor Anita Hill four years later (video of the questioning after the jump).
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