Judge Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court had already, two months before

the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings would begin, led to a pitched battle in the press, continued on this show. A sizzling exchange on matters ranging from how judges decide (or should decide) cases to whether there are any permissible "litmus tests" for judges. Two samples: LNC: "Judge Bork['s]... mind, in my own view, is quite open on whether he would overrule Roe v. Wade if he had the opportunity. But if he were to say in the hearing, 'The first chance I get I will overrule Roe v. Wade,-- I think a motion to disqualify him in that case, when it comes up, would lie properly." ... WT: "I mean, it's not that he thinks that Supreme Court decisions in the past have been merely wrong ... He thinks that they're matters, in some areas, of judicial usurpation."