I remember that show well, the only hearing I ever watched and the only one for which I obtained the full transcripts.

The NYT editorialists treated it as a serious intellectual contest, with the mighty Arlen Specter as Bork’s leading contestant.

It was not. It was intellectual infanticide with Judge Bork playing King Herod. The clue to this was the group of Yale law students who were quoted as being upset that the Judge was not being adequately challenged on grounds of sensitivity and compassion rather than the law.

As if our judges should be chosen from the ranks of veterinarians!