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Posted on 12/19/2012 6:20:43 AM PST by cotton1706
There would never have been a “Saturday Night Massacre” if only Nixon had not forced Richard Kleindienst to resign as Attorney General. Kleindienst, a Goldwater man, would never have hired Archibald Cox, a Kennedy man, to investigate the Nixon administration.
A great man who would have made an excellent attorney general had he not been treated with gross and insulting behavior by the likes of the lousy DemocRAT congress!
Rest In Peace, Judge Bork.
Rot in hell you evil detractors!
God Save America from Bronco Bama and his legions of evil, God-less communists.
May the choirs of angels come to greet you.
May they speed you to paradise.
May the Lord enfold you in his mercy.
May you find eternal life.
Yes, a great human being has left our world. God bless Robert H. Bork.
Except for FOX, the media will not even be “balanced” in their non-memorial memorial: they will dutifully report the
“controversial” nomination for the Supreme Court (made only controversial by the trail-blazing psychotic Ted Kennedy) and leave it at that. Since Kennedy has already been anointed as A Great Dead Man, Bork will be mis-remembered by the Low-Information Viewer the only way he can be, as a quaint casualty of an earlier period, when the Left was beginning to find its voice , the voice of over-the-top Demagoguery.
I often lament about the "what ifs", "if only" he had become a SCOTUS judge. What a pleasure it would have been to have read his decisions and opinions. They would have been legendary and strong precedent. Very likely, he might also have been the swing vote in making landmark decisions overruling previous unconstitutional precedent-breaking decisions by previous a left-dominated SCOTUS. (Historically, it appears the most egregious departures for the Constitution have come from a leftist SCOTUS majority.)
His example would almost certainly have been one against "judicial activism" either on the right or the left. What a pleasure it would have been to see how he would have applied the ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDING AND INTENT of the Constitution to a case either in writing for the majority, in concurrence, or in dissent.
I wish people like Bork, Reagan, and Milton Friedman would live forever, because our country and world need these wonderful men so desperately. Heaven's gain, our loss.
I didn’t know him personally. I saw the article and posted it.
He was a great jurist. One of the greatest in American history. It’s a shame we didn’t have his towering intellect on the US Supreme Court.
I have been watching Faux News now for over an hour. Not one mention of this conservative giant. For all intents and purposes Faux has turned into just another liberal news channel.
I don't know if this was early in his career or later, but, to me, his reasoning was more important than his conclusions. His approach, which should be followed by all judges, especially federal judges, was to put his own personal values and biases aside and faithfully apply the original understanding and intent of the law (in this case, the Constitution) as best as possible. That's the best anyone can do. It doesn't guarantee perfect results, but nothing is prefect and this faithful methodology is the truest and most integrated judicial approach there is to Constitutional law.
Strange...the first report I heard of this was on Fox News this morning.
He would have made a heck of a Supreme Court justice.
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Just saw this posted. Just damn.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Fox has not mentioned his passing and I have been watching for well over an hour. They have mentioned the “marine” whose under arrest in Mexico over a rifle. They keep showing him in his military uniform and saying “marine corporal this, marine corporal that”. The man is not a marine. He is a marine veteran, but for some strange reason Fox likes to pretend that no one ever gets out of the military when they go in.
RIP, Judge Bork. Thank you for your love of America and your unfailing defense of her Constitution.
May the Bork be with you.. He was a good man regardless liebrals insane attempts to smear him, he saw thru them like a Harry Reid budget proposal.. there was nothing there.
RIP Judge Bork
A loss of a great and honorable man.
RIP Judge.
His approach, which should be followed by all judges, especially federal judges, was to put his own personal values and biases (the basis for “judicial activism”) aside and faithfully apply the original understanding and intent of the law (in this case, the Constitution) as best as possible. That's the best anyone can do. It doesn't guarantee perfect results, but nothing is prefect and this faithful methodology is the truest and most integrated judicial approach there is to Constitutional law.
His example would almost certainly have been one against "judicial activism" either on the right or the left. What a pleasure it would have been to see how he would have applied the Constitution to a case either in writing for the majority, in concurrence, or in dissent.
I wish people like Bork, Reagan, and Milton Friedman would live forever, because our country and world need these wonderful men so desperately. Heaven's gain, our loss.
RIP. Another victim of the leftist-hate America smear machine.
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