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A great jurist and Solicitor General.
1 posted on 12/19/2012 6:20:49 AM PST by cotton1706
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..Joe Biden continues after assisting in the destruction of Judge Bork and attempting to do so to Clarence Thomas--his day shall come.

Judge Bork: great jurist and great American. He did his best and then had to go--as America slouches toward Gomorrah...

92 posted on 12/19/2012 3:02:45 PM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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I always liked hin and have a couple of his books. I really believe that this nation is truly a lesser nation becuase it did not have Bork on the USSC. I believe I saw somewhere that he converted to Catholicism later in life. I’ll have to pick up his books and read them a little bit this weekend.


95 posted on 12/19/2012 4:01:36 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
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RIP, Mr. Bork. We should’ve had you on the Supreme Court instead of Anthony Kennedy.


97 posted on 12/19/2012 5:01:57 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: cotton1706
It's been so long since I heard his name. he was a great man and very pro life if I remember. Liberals hated him so he must have been a saint( was off in the army so didn't remember much of the Reagan years except from afar).

It's your time to see the Great Judge on High your honor. Prayers for his family and friends down here as earth becomes hell, or the top circle anyway.

100 posted on 12/19/2012 6:14:02 PM PST by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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imagine our world would be different if Bork was on the SC.....

imagine having jurists who acutually defended the constitution...

101 posted on 12/19/2012 6:48:20 PM PST by cherry
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It’s a shame that great and honorable men like Judge Bork get slimed, have their reputations destroyed, and are denied great public service positions. Robert Bork was and always will be one hundred times the man Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden wished they were. RIP your honor the Supreme Court and the country would have been far better off had you sat on the high court.


102 posted on 12/19/2012 7:07:43 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: cotton1706
The Left's attempt to destroy a good and decent man, Robert Bork, was one of the great disillusioning events of my young adulthood.

While Ted Kennedy and his ilk were murdering the truth about Bork, my liberal mother-in-law uttered a few candid words that I will never forget:
"It's a shame --and I know he's a kind man who took good care of his wife when she was dying of cancer-- but it has to be done."

103 posted on 12/19/2012 7:11:01 PM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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One of the best books on American law and culture I have read in decades:

Barnes and Noble Overview
"Slouching Towards Gomorrah [orig. 1996] is an insightful expose of a country in crisis at the end of the millennium, where the rise of...radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification), has undermined our culture, our intellect and our morality."
In a new Afterword, the author highlights recent disturbing trends in our laws and society, with special attention to matters of sex and censorship, race relations, and the relentless erosion of American moral values.

104 posted on 12/19/2012 7:48:37 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The only way to stop a man with a gun is with a gun. --Daniel Greenfield)
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To: lady lawyer; AnAmericanMother; Gluteus Maximus; mrsmith; Petronski; The Pack Knight; xsmommy; ...

RIPing...


106 posted on 12/19/2012 7:58:51 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The only way to stop a man with a gun is with a gun. --Daniel Greenfield)
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May his souls, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

A true hero in my way of thinking.


107 posted on 12/19/2012 9:35:46 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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R.I.P. bump


108 posted on 12/19/2012 9:47:58 PM PST by Christian4Bush (The USSA. Born 7/4/1776. Committed suicide 11/6/2012.)
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Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.

Anima eius, et animæ omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen.
110 posted on 12/19/2012 10:48:59 PM PST by Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)
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Mark Levin spoke to this yesterday. His shows are recorded and available at marklevinshow.com. See 12/19

http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930


112 posted on 12/20/2012 2:00:50 AM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but I recall that Judge Bork had both Clintons as “pupils” in a law school class and had no memory whatsoever of either of them. This of course was before the Clintos became celebrities, worshipped by tens of millions of gullible Americans. He didn’t see anything there to remember, or maybe it was such a large class tht no one stood out.


114 posted on 12/20/2012 4:30:36 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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On another thread, a writer was quoted as saying, "That he did not [become a Justice] was largely the handiwork of political hacks not fit to judge a man of his caliber. . . ."

What a powerfully accurate summary of the shameful conduct of those "political hacks," many of whom remain in positions of power in the American government!

Judge Bork's view of the Constitution and its protections for individual liberty were consistent with the principles and understanding of those who framed it and of those who participated in ratifying it in the States.

His views were consistent with those of Madison, Hamilton and Jay, as expressed in the 85 essays of THE FEDERALIST.

Further, his views were consistent with the idea expressed by Jefferson:

" "On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322.

The descendants of the very men who prevented Judge Bork from serving on the Supreme Court will, for generations, see their liberties diminished because of the shameful actions of their ancestors--men who prevented this staunch defender of liberty from contributing his Creator-endowed gift of understanding and fidelity to his nation's Constitution.

118 posted on 12/20/2012 5:32:33 PM PST by loveliberty2 ( -)
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Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy's treatment of Robert Bork was the beginning of the "politics of personal destruction". Sure the media was ugly about Reagan when he was running, but it was nothing compared to what they did to Robert Bork, and later, to Clarence Thomas.

And yet, in typical Democrat 'projection', they always accuse Republicans, and especially conservatives, of doing this sort of thing. We couldn't do it as effectively, if we tried.

119 posted on 12/23/2012 5:33:30 PM PST by SuziQ
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