How did this man not get confirmed?!!
Ironically he was Bill and Hillary’s professor at Yale.
The swimmer led the fight against him and unfortunately succeeded.
“How did this man not get confirmed?!!”
It may be fortunate that he wasn’t. As I recall in one of his books he said the 2nd ammendment wasn’t an individual right.
It’s pretty obvious that he didn’t bat his eyelashes at the Congressmen enough.
When you look at ----and hear---- the inferior nominee we have now----it's even more nauseating.
There are thousands of distinguished jurists out there-with a judge's required demeanor-----who are 1000 times more qualified than this grinning, self-absorbed nom...........
Just makes me ill.
Bork’s problem was two-fold.
One, he was entirely too forward and open in his nomination hearings. He answered the questions in a fortright manner. The liberals (Leahy, Kennedy, etc) were already suspicious of him and used a number of his statements against him. By saying that, I mean to say that his confirmation hearing remarks were deliberately taken out of context.
Two, NARAL, which carried (and still carries) considerable clout amongt Dems in the Senate was 100% convinced that Bork was gonna vote to over-turn Roe v Wade. I’m not sure what they based that on. I don’t recall Bork ever saying that he would vote that way. I believe that they took some of his previous writings in an out of cntext manner too.
There has been a long-term consequence of the savaging of Robert Bork back in ‘87. Virtually, every nominee (since then) has been evasive and virtually unresponsive when faced with a question regarding their legal philosophy. The most recent two nominees (Roberts and Sotomayor) have proved that very well. In short, it is impossible to get a feel anymore for where a nominee stands of many issues.