Comments on: Robert Bork, RIP

By: fuster

fuster — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:40:19 +0000

quite a few people would say that Bork was radical, JED and much of the opposition to his nomination was far closer to the center of American political thought.

—— “Bork faced a torrent of opposition. More than 2,000 law teachers, more than 40 percent of the total at accredited law school, were against his nomination, including the deans of Harvard, New York University, Michigan, Georgetown, Northwestern and many other schools. Conservative Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago wrote, “Bork’s entire current constitutional jurisprudential theory [is] directed to a diminution of minority and individual rights.”

Most important, five of the fifteen members of the American Bar Association committee on the federal judiciary refused to give Bork a “qualified” rating—the first time the ABA had not been unanimous in favor of a Supreme Court nominee since it began evaluating candidates during the Eisenhower administration; four found him “not qualified.” “—-

http://www.thenation.com/article/171877/bork-legacy

By: J.E. Dyer

J.E. Dyer — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:59:03 +0000

The Borking of Bork is a reminder of how long we’ve been living with intemperate radicalism from the Democratic Party. Much longer than 4 years. In some ways, it goes back a century. Bork was a good man and fine jurist. America took a loss when Kennedy et al torpedoed his nomination. He will be missed.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:49:57 +0000

The tone of the comments strikes me as unsupportably triumphal. When the Republicans acceed supinely while the Democrats can place people like Sotomayor and her ilk on the Court and throughout the judiciary, and when Democrats wage holy war to prevent ratification of an exceptional conservative jurist like Bork, there is no triumph. Bad judges will not reform and will not get better; they just keep on reimagining their fancied “living document” into new emanations and penumbras and further outrages of unchecked, unbalanced and unaccountable and usurpation of the legislative and executive powers. Robert Bork was a very good man, very badly wronged. He deserved better.

By: fuster

fuster — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:05:51 +0000

Bork’s role in it was honorable and principled and nothing that he sought, but something that devolved onto him.

By: fuster

fuster — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Bork should have been confirmed but was not at all the most important legal scholar of his or any other day.

By: JPeterman

JPeterman — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:12:24 +0000

“One tidbit about Judge Bork worth checking out is his role in the Saturday Night Massacre at the Nixon DOJ during Watergate”

I have little knowledge of Judge Bork, but I was also surprised when I read about his involvement with the Saturday Massacre.

By: Fausta

Fausta — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:05:36 +0000

Check out this video, Jacob, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nvd33008nYE#!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:28:42 +0000

One tidbit about Judge Bork worth checking out is his role in the Saturday Night Massacre at the Nixon DOJ during Watergate. Obviously his later work as a judge should be front and center in remembering him and his legacy, but I recently ran across the judge’s involvement when reading about Watergate and was surprised to see his name.