Posted on 12/19/2012 1:00:58 PM PST by Mozilla
Former federal judge and conservative legal scholar Robert Bork died early Wednesday at his Virginia home, his family confirmed to CNN. He was 85.
Perhaps best known for his nomination to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, Bork was rejected for the post after a contentious confirmation battle led by left-leaning groups that opposed his conservative judicial philosophies.
Bork had recently served as a senior legal adviser to Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. He was a solicitor general during the Nixon administration and first gained notoriety for carrying out the president's order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal in 1973, an episode known as the Saturday Night Massacre.
But it was the Senate's rejection of his high court nomination that earned the conservative Bork a political legacy -- symbolic of the contentious, partisan nature of congressional confirmations.
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An early victim of the left’s Politics of Pesonal Destruction.
>>An early victim of the left’s Politics of Pesonal Destruction.<<
True dat. Libs are like weeds. They just coming back until they take over the garden.
RIP
He was truly one of the great legal minds of our time. It is a travesty that he was not confirmed to the Court.
SnakeDoc
He was the poster child for the left’s encroaching totalitarianism and unwillingness to hear other opinions. Wish people had noticed back then that something wasn’t right. Could have nipped it in the bud. They tried the same crap with Clarence Thomas which was to tear him down.
As others have menioned numerous times, thank God he wasn’t because Obama would be picking his replacement.
He was kept off the court by a Republican....the bastards’ name was ARLEN SPECTER....may he rot in.........
Not many are accorded the distinction of having their name become a verb, a portion of our immeasurable debt to Ted Kennedy, of Kennedy-Dodd waitress sandwich fame.
He didn’t deserve the treatment he got. It shows what lengths the radical man-hating abortion-loving feminazis will go to destroy anyone who gets in their way.
I was a Nixon hater and a Watergate junkie. I would watch every minute I could of the hearings. After the Saturday Night Massacre, I was fit to be tied and wanted Bork’s head.
However, after he was nominated to the SCOTUS, I watched those hearings too. And although I “hated” him, it was obvious he was imminently qualified and would make decisions based on the Constitution and not ideology.
Since elections have consequences, Reagan had the rock solid right to nominate his candidate and have him approved. The Senate is simply a last bulwark against an obvious inept political appointee.
After hearing his testimony, I felt “why even bother with a roll call vote?” This guy is so qualified a simple voice vote of 100% is warranted.
That was when I discovered that Democrats didn’t give a rat’s patootie about the Constitution.
The next SCOTUS hearings (Clarence Thomas) sealed the deal when it was revealed that the Democrats hadn’t jettisoned their racist past. They had just politicized it.
I haven’t (and will never) vote for a Democrat again.
Thanks for the post - he was a good man. Prayers for his family and loved ones...
Let’s not forget that Mr. Bork’s nomination was destroyed by a drunken lying, philanderer, coward, killer named Teddy.
Maybe. Maybe not. He’s been sick for a while. Probably would’ve retired during the Bush administration (like he retired from teaching law school).
Either way, his replacement was Anthony Kennedy. Every 5-4 ruling where Kennedy sided with the liberals would’ve gone the other way. Including abortion.
SnakeDoc
You welcome. R.I.P. Robert Bork. He was a good man and did not deserve the badgering he got in 1987 trying to make the Supreme Court. It still bothers me how easily the left tore him down. I am glad they couldn’t get away with Clarence Thomas.
Yes. A good man in a corrupt culture.
Didn’t Bork later complain that Ronald W. Reagan did practically nothing to bolster the nomination other than making it?
Here is Robert Bork’s bibliography:
http://www.ranker.com/list/robert-bork-books-and-stories-and-written-works/reference
Yes, Specter; Bork was from PA too, but Specter was born in KS. You forgot ol’ John Warner’s opposition to Bork.
This is an interesting little item that is often overlooked in Bork's past. I've read in several places that this particular issue resulted in a lot of very soft GOP support for his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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