Editing Ken Starr (section)

== Early 1990s ==
When the [[United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics]] needed someone to review Republican senator [[Bob Packwood]]'s diaries, the committee chose Starr.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/us/congress-winds-down-senate-investigation-packwood-lagging-panel-reports.html |title=Congress Winds Down: The Senate – Investigation Of Packwood Is Lagging, Panel Reports |work= The New York Times |date=October 8, 1994 |accessdate=September 13, 2022 |archive-date=September 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913211319/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/us/congress-winds-down-senate-investigation-packwood-lagging-panel-reports.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1990, Starr was the leading candidate for the U.S.&nbsp;Supreme Court nomination after [[William J. Brennan Jr.|William Brennan]]'s retirement. He encountered strong resistance from the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] leadership, which feared Starr might not be reliably conservative as a Supreme Court justice. George H. W. Bush nominated [[David Souter]] instead of Starr.<ref name="greenburg">{{cite book|last=Greenburg|first=Jan Crawford|title=Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court|publisher=Penguin|year= 2008|pages=[https://archive.org/details/supremeconflicti00janc/page/89 89–93]|isbn=978-0-14-311304-1| url= https://archive.org/details/supremeconflicti00janc/page/89}}</ref>
Starr also considered running for the United States Senate, from Virginia in 1994, against incumbent [[Chuck Robb]], but opted against opposing [[Oliver North]] for the Republican nomination.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.newsweek.com/starr-trek-195218|title=Starr Trek?|date=February 14, 1993| work= [[Newsweek]] |accessdate=September 13, 2022|archive-date=September 13, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220913202714/https://www.newsweek.com/starr-trek-195218|url-status=live}}</ref>