The privacy act was originally passed in 1988 after a video store leaked a list of the movies rented by then-Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork to a reporter.

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Ellen Bork, a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, writes about Asia.

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Specter has been a defender of abortion rights in an overwhelmingly anti-abortion party and opposed President Ronald Reagan's controversial nomination of Robert Bork to a Supreme Court seat in 1987.

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In September and October of 1973, Bork played a critical part, along with Attorney General Elliot Richardson, in insisting that Agnew be indicted by the Justice Department unless he resigned from office.

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Bork worked with Haig to appoint Leon Jaworski, a former president of the American Bar Association.

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He was active in the civil-rights movement, and a paid-up Democrat until the Robert Bork debacle of 1987.

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