Posted on 07/16/2009 10:01:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Legal scholar and former U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork tells Newsmax he doesn't believe court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's assertion that she is "entirely governed by law," as he believes she should be.
In an exclusive interview, he also said Sotomayor, who's going through confirmation hearings before a Senate panel, should be disqualified from consideration because of a statement she made.
And Bork stated that the Roe v. Wade decision has been the "most dangerous" the Supreme Court has ever made because it has "embittered our politics."
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Bork was solicitor general and was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals before President Ronald Reagan nominated him for the Supreme Court in 1987. The Democratic Senate rejected his nomination after a contentious debate, and the seat on the bench eventually went to Anthony Kennedy.
Newsmax.TV's Ashley Martella observed that Bork's "savaging by the left" forever changed the way judges are confirmed, with politics and demographics becoming more important than competence and qualifications.
"That's entirely true," said Bork, whose latest book is "A Time to Speak — Selected Writings and Arguments."
"But the Supreme Court has only itself to blame for that. The Supreme Court made itself, starting in the 1950s, into an increasingly political institution, and once you're a political institution with that kind of power, people are going to fight to control the institution any way they can.
"In my case, I think the trigger was the fear that I might vote to overrule Roe against Wade."
Martella asked whether Sotomayor's statement that a Latina woman could make smarter decisions than a white male should have been "an immediate disqualifier."
"Yes," Bork stated...
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How did this man not get confirmed?!!
Judge Bork’s savaging by the liberal press and Congressional lowlifes still ranks high on my list of ‘most disappointing events in life’.
Robert Bork, of any man in the USA, should be the most disgusted by the proceedings that have put both Ginsberg and Sotomayor on the SCOTUS.
Both are lightweights who will, and have, relied almost entirely on their staffs to give cover for their inability to articulate the law based on the Constitution of the United States.
Bork, on the other hand, was simply brilliant, and as a result, ultimately fatal to the liberals. He was ‘collateral damage’ in the runup to our current collectivist Kenyan president, and his sycophantic socialist fellow travelers in the Senate and the House.
Oh, how the mighty nation has fallen from within.
Ironically he was Bill and Hillary’s professor at Yale.
Jim, can you imagine what Bork, and even Justice Thomas must be thinking when they watch Graham and Cornyn fawning over Sotomayor? Bork and Thomas were essentially terrorized and humiliated by the Democrats, and THEY were qualified. Her apparent racism aside, this woman is not qualified to sit on the court.
The verb is “to Bork”; the action should be aimed at Sotomayor!
BUMP!
It makes my blood boil when I think of our young men and women overseas dying for our country, and watch these spineless Republicans speak well of an ultra left wing woman to whom our freedom and Constitution mean nothing.
"I think it's proved to be Roe against Wade. We have very bitter politics over abortion.
"I understand it's different in Europe, where the issue is not nearly as explosive or as divisive, the reason being that in Europe by and large the issue is decided by legislatures. Each side fights it out, arrives at some kind of a conclusion, a compromise, and they go home deciding they can try again next year.
"Here, by contrast, voters and political parties are just told to shut up, and that makes them furious. So Roe against Wade, whatever else its demerits are, has really embittered our politics in ways that are most unhealthy."
Giving free rein to murder. What could be more dangerous???
How very different things would be had Robert Bork been confirmed.
Thanks for posting this, "Mr. Thompson" (giggle)
Senator Jeff Sessions says he doesn’t think they’ll vote on Tuesday because they can’t get the paperwork to everyone to read in time.
Sotomayor is a liar. It’s so obvious. She uses her modulated voice and slow speech to speak down to the Republicans and ‘splain it to them. And that way she can use up all their time. MOST of her answers to everyone have been EVASIVE.
I pray to God that our emails to the Senate keep ALL Republicans and those few Moderate Democrats from Voting YEA.
The swimmer led the fight against him and unfortunately succeeded.
Her apparent racism aside, this woman is not qualified to sit on the court””
In this house, she isn’t qualified to walk my dog or feed hay to the horses.
and in addition to that she is too dumb
“and in addition to that she is too dumb”
Therrrrrrrrre ya go!!
Surprised no one has asked her what prenumbras she perceives in the Constitution. She asserts she will only interpret laws and not create but will she interpret or create constitutional law?
Ginsburg was the head attorney of the ACLU when Clinton nominated her. I was pretty surprised that there wasn’t even a modicum of outrage about Ginsburg’s recent comments that it was common knowledge way back when that abortion served the purpose of “getting rid of the undesirables” - now isn’t that sweet of her to straighten that out. Margaret Sanger is their hero, and she was all about eugenics for the poor and the minorities. The spineless Repubs didn’t give Ruthy any problems in her hearings, and Sonia is just fiddling while Lindsey and company go thru the motions. Geez, what has happened to Tom Coburn? He is coming across like a total moron these days?
Ginsburg was the head attorney of the ACLU when Clinton nominated her. I was pretty surprised that there wasn’t even a modicum of outrage about Ginsburg’s recent comments that it was common knowledge way back when that abortion served the purpose of “getting rid of the undesirables” - now isn’t that sweet of her to straighten that out. Margaret Sanger is their hero, and she was all about eugenics for the poor and the minorities. The spineless Repubs didn’t give Ruthy any problems in her hearings, and Sonia is just fiddling while Lindsey and company go thru the motions. Geez, what has happened to Tom Coburn? He is coming across like a total moron these days?
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