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To: traviskicks

I blame the Democrats for this decision. Why? The answer is can be summed up in one word: BORK.

Robert Bork, a highly distinguished and extremely qualified legal scholar, was vilified by the Democrats when Reagan nominated him to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. The nomination hearings in the Senate were so filled with character assasination, nasty innuendos and dirty tricks that a new verb was created - "to bork" someone is to run their name through the mud for political purposes.

After Bork's nomination failed in the Senate, due to the vilifying treatment he received, Reagan then nominated Kennedy, who was later confirmed.

I cannot fathom a Justice Bork siding on the wrong side of this decision - as Kennedy did.

So, whenever someone from DU or other leftist organization complains about this decision, remind them of Judge Bork and how this decision would have been different if he, and not Kennedy, were on the Supreme Court.


2 posted on 06/24/2005 10:05:16 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
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To: So Cal Rocket

This decision shows that the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.


5 posted on 06/24/2005 10:09:44 AM PDT by Straight8 (I am unique, just like everyone else.)
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To: So Cal Rocket

Robert Bork disagrees with the individual rights interpretation of the 2nd amendment. Is he someone we really would have wanted to be a supreme court justice?


6 posted on 06/24/2005 10:09:54 AM PDT by Truthsayer20
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To: So Cal Rocket
cannot fathom a Justice Bork siding on the wrong side of this decision - as Kennedy did.

Given that Bork swallows the "the 2nd Amendment is only about the state militia" twaddle and pretty much prostituted himself during the Microsoft antitrust fight, I can quite easily see him voting with the anti-private-property side.

15 posted on 06/24/2005 11:27:22 AM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: So Cal Rocket

Bork has little respect for individual rights. Nor does he favor having the Court strike down local laws, regardless of the constitutionality of those laws. He'd've voted with the liberals for sure.


19 posted on 06/24/2005 1:58:55 PM PDT by Sandy
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To: So Cal Rocket
The Souter nomination was also a coup for the rats since they got one of their own in during a Republican presidency. Either that or George HW bush nominated someone who was a big internationalist fraud like he was.
21 posted on 06/24/2005 4:28:22 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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