President Reagan's nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Robert Bork, found his nomination defeated in the Senate. His name subsequently became a verb, meaning 'to attack or defeat a nominee unfairly through an organized campaign of harsh public criticism or vilification'.
Near the end of the antebellum, Congress passed this law enforcing that escaped slaves in free states must be promplty returned to their masters.
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Due to suspicions that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. voted to invade the Middle Eastern nation in 2002.
Most strikingly, this bill made it a felony to be in the United States illegally.
