Re: Protege of Robert Bork

[Wabeal <Wabeal@aol.com>]

Charles:
Judge Silberman didn't "lead the charge to strip Judge Sporkin of his
authority" over the Microsoft consent decree.  The Tunney Act which governs
such decrees is crystal clear about the role of a United States District Court
Judge in reviewing such matters.  As you may not recall, Judge Sporkin
announced from the bench that he had read a highly critical account of Bill
Gates and Microsoft and then proceeded to overstep the bounds of a Tunney Act
proceeding so egregiously as to warrant not only summary reversal of his
"findings" but removal.  Silberman also did not "side" with Microsoft in that
matter.  He and the panel affirmed the DOJ's imposition og a consent decree
constraining Microsoft's behavior.  But those are just details.
By the way, Charles, Sporkin is a Reagan-appointee who was replaced by another
Reagan-appointee, Jackson.  And, just because accuracy does matter to some of
us, the Washingtonian did not say that Randolph was, as you put it, "a perfect
fit for Reagan when he was looking to appoint  anti-government, intellectual
conservatives to the federal bench."