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Question for older posters: Why did Bork get Bork'd?
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:28 pm
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:28 pm
i want subjective memories and not wikipedia
i didn't know about this until a couple years back, and i only stumbled onto it via thomas sowell videos
i didn't know about this until a couple years back, and i only stumbled onto it via thomas sowell videos
This post was edited on 1/31/17 at 10:29 pm
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Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:31 pm to SlowFlowPro
Ted Kennedy.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:31 pm to SlowFlowPro
First Reagan SC appointment under a Dem-controlled Senate, plus Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:32 pm to SlowFlowPro
Because of his nasty beard.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:33 pm to SlowFlowPro
I would argue that Ted Kennedy's speech on the senate floor changed decorum in politics to what we see today. It was an ambush that was dirty, cheap and sleazy. Bork was brilliant, but perhaps his temperament in the actual hearings hurt his case.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
Long day, I read your subject as Bjork
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
Cause he was dangerous. Don't try to replay that ground. Bork believed that personal politics was sufficient justification to use the courts as an agent of the executive branch, undermining basic federalism.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:35 pm to TBoy
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Bork believed that personal politics was sufficient justification to use the courts as an agent of the executive branch, undermining basic federalism.
explain
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
He was the "hatchet man" behind the Whatever Massacre, and this was another chance for revenge against Nixon
Before Bork, you generally just looked at the guy's legal opinions. But with Bork they went after everything -- they even went to video stores to find out what movies he had rented.
That's the significance of Bork, and the meaning of "to Bork" someone
Before Bork, you generally just looked at the guy's legal opinions. But with Bork they went after everything -- they even went to video stores to find out what movies he had rented.
That's the significance of Bork, and the meaning of "to Bork" someone
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
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i only stumbled onto it via thomas sowell videos
Watching Sowell destroy Biden never gets old.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:36 pm to The Boat
I actually think his creepy looks played a somewhat substantial part in the dems being allowed to get away with what they did to him. Sort of shielded them from the sympathetic housewife backlash.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:36 pm to LSU92
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I would argue that Ted Kennedy's speech on the senate floor changed decorum in politics to what we see today.
Absolutely. No one on the left thought the right would ever return the favor.
The left lost their mind with the nomination. Bork was perhaps one of the most qualified people ever nominated and his character was assassinated over a nothingburger.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:37 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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I actually think his creepy looks played a somewhat substantial part in the dems being allowed to get away with what they did to him. Sort of shielded them from the sympathetic housewife backlash.
It's a shame. But that's why I said Gorsuch will be confirmed. Him and his wife are good looking people.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:38 pm to TBoy
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Cause he was dangerous.
This is what the left says anytime anyone to the right of Marshall is nominated. You all can collectively frick yourselves.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:38 pm to Homesick Tiger
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Ted Kennedy.
Nasty woman.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:38 pm to Homesick Tiger
Ted "what drowned pregnant woman on my abandoned car?" Kennedy.
Because of this, Anthony Kennedy ended up on the court.
Because of this, Anthony Kennedy ended up on the court.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:39 pm to SlowFlowPro
I was too young to fully appreciate the nuances of what was going on (about 10 years old) but I remember:
-Lots of protestors holding up signs that read "Bork is a dork"
-Lot of talk about abortion rights
I think the Democrats just got together and decided to draw a line because they felt he was too conservative and could be too influential, as he was known to be a conservative legal heavyweight.
Supposedly the same thing would have been done to Posner if he had ever been nominated by a republican president. The Democrats let it be known behind closed doors that he would have been torpedoed in a brutal style.
-Lots of protestors holding up signs that read "Bork is a dork"
-Lot of talk about abortion rights
I think the Democrats just got together and decided to draw a line because they felt he was too conservative and could be too influential, as he was known to be a conservative legal heavyweight.
Supposedly the same thing would have been done to Posner if he had ever been nominated by a republican president. The Democrats let it be known behind closed doors that he would have been torpedoed in a brutal style.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:40 pm to LSU92
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I would argue that Ted Kennedy's speech on the senate floor changed decorum in politics to what we see today. It was an ambush that was dirty, cheap and sleazy.
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Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
He had strong conservative opinions AND shared them freely.
Future nominees gained a valuable lesson...
Future nominees gained a valuable lesson...
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:41 pm to Kafka
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Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.
damn i bet the intern who wrote that jacked off while reading the final version
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