In his first nomination to the Supreme Court, President Clinton has signaled that he was not embarking on an ideological counterrevolution, hoping to balance the Republican appointees with a clearly liberal jurist.

But to liberal jurists, Mr. Bush's reference to Dred Scott in the second debate, on Oct. 8, was particularly puzzling.

The president named Mr. Goldberg, and Mr. Galbraith later blamed himself for a mistake that "cost the court a good and liberal jurist."

Laskin was a liberal jurist who often found himself on the minority side of decisions.

Justice Ciparick, a Democrat who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is considered a liberal jurist who will be replacing one of the court's more conservative members.

She was the daughter of a liberal jurist, Dmitry Stasov (1828-1918) who worked in the Senate and was a Herald at the coronation of Alexander II.

Mr. Quayle argued that while the President was not "100 percent" conservative, to repudiate him would risk turning the Cabinet over to liberal jurists and advocates of abortion.

That fed his desire for field work and led him to Judge Goldstone, one of South Africa's more liberal jurists.

But in contrast to some liberal jurists, Judge Kennedy also asserted in the lecture that it is "imprudent as well to say that there are broadly defined categories of unenumerated rights."

Jon Hol sided with Johan Sverdrup, a liberal jurist who had become the spearhead of parliamentary opposition to the King.