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by Peter Maass
ProPublica, Nov. 14, 2012, 5:02 p.m
This story was co-published with The New Yorker and is not subject to our Creative Commons license.
In 1987, when Judge Robert Bork was enmeshed in a partisan struggle over his Supreme Court nomination, a reporter for an alternative weekly in Washington, D.C., got a tip that the judge was a patron of a local video store. Michael Dolan went to Potomac Video, in the western corner of the capital, and asked the assistant manager for a list of videos the judge had checked out. \”Cool,\” the assistant manager said. \”I\’ll look.\”
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