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Senate Judiciary Chairman Joseph Biden Jr., of Delaware, left, speaks with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., during the confirmations hearings for Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 16, 1987. During the hearing Biden focused his questioning on Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 decision that allowed married couples to buy birth control. “If we tried to make this a referendum on abortion rights, for example, we’d lose," he wrote in his 2007 memoir, “Promises to Keep.” (AP Photo/John Duricka, File)

Senate Judiciary Chairman Joseph Biden Jr., of Delaware, left, speaks with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., during the confirmations hearings for Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 16, 1987. During the hearing Biden focused his questioning on Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 decision that allowed married couples to buy birth control. “If we tried to make this a referendum on abortion rights, for example, we’d lose," he wrote in his 2007 memoir, “Promises to Keep.” (AP Photo/John Duricka, File)

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