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Record W7115038777

The Bork Bloc

2025· dissertation· W7115038777 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2025
Typedissertation
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJudicial and Constitutional Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsSupreme courtLegislatureState (computer science)FederalismTreaty
DOInot available

Abstract

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Robert Bork's failed confirmation was a watershed moment for the conservative counterrevolution in the federal court system and the consequences on the courts within the United States have gone underappreciated by mainstream historical accounts of the later 20th century.My thesis attempts to contextualize Bork's confirmation process within the broader political climate and the conservative counterrevolution.Additionally, my thesis examines the cascading ramifications of the Reagan administration's influence on the federal courts well into the 21st century.My research points to the Reagan administration's legacy leading to subsequent changes in the tone of Supreme Court decisions, and examines key cases that exemplify the historical push to the right.La confirmation de Robert Bork a été le point de départ d'une contre-révolution conservatrice dans le système judiciaire fédéral et ses progrès négligés ont des conséquences dévastatrices pour les Américains et les tribunaux aux États-Unis.Ma thèse tente de contextualiser le processus de confirmation de Bork dans le climat politique plus large et dans la contre-révolution conservatrice.De plus, ma thèse examine les ramifications en cascade de l'échec de l'administration Reagan sur le processus global de confirmation ainsi que sur la Cour suprême dans son ensemble.Il démontre le ton changeant des décisions de la Cour suprême et examine des cas clés qui illustrent la poussée historique vers la droite.The rest of the paper can be long winded so I will keep this part brief.To my friends, and family, who supported my research and writing, and encouraged each draft, To my classmates who influenced my research, and gave me new ideas, To Professors Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Edward Dunsworth, and most importantly, Leonard Moore, who guided me towards new ideas, and forced me to reexamine my own initial conclusions, and who continue to inspire me, Thank you."Our worries are over," [a friend] said."The end of the Reagan Administration-against the backdrop of the Iran arms scandal, the defeat of Robert Bork and the disgrace of Ed Meese-effectively ends the Reagan Revolution and the New Right's threat to our civil liberties." 1 -Ira Glasser, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.044
Threshold uncertainty score0.122

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.007
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0360.012

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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