Borking won’t work quite the same way again. In the age of alternative news sources they don’t control the news cycle the way they did before.
And frankly, people old enough to remember Bork have never forgiven it and won’t lay down for it again. Bork was one of the most qualified and decent men ever to serve on any bench.
Yes, although IIRC, he did say one thing during confirmation that pissed me off. He answered an abortion question that there was no right to privacy to be found in the Constitution. He's technically correct, but the whole paradigm of the question and the answer is flawed. It is not the rights of the individual that are enumerated in the Constitution, so that some explicit protection must be sought against some proposed government policy or action. It is the powers of the GOVERNMENT that are enumerated and THEIR actions and policies for which justification must be found. Anything on which it's silent, the government loses (and therefore the people win).
“people old enough to remember Bork have never forgiven it”
I watched it all as I was working second shift. I wanted to strangle that blonde reporter, Cokie Roberts?