[cripplecreek]

Robert Bork was just on Laura Ingrams show this morning. He used words like "doublecrossed" when speaking about the GOP telling us to "tone it down" about judicial nominees.

[Van Jenerette]

..reading.

[Aetius]

If only the GOP had fought harder for Bork, maybe he'd be on the Court right now, then we'd be spared the inane ramblings of Kennedy, and maybe a few more decisions would have gone the right way.

For all of Reagan's greatness, he really screwed up with regards to the Supreme Court. One out of three may be good in baseball, but it sucks for picking judges.

[Lil'freeper]

The combination of absolute power, disdain for the historic Constitution, and philosophical incompetence is lethal.

Can't be said loudly enough.

[AntiGuv]

"The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that there is no individual right to own a firearm. The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possibly tyrannical national government. Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose."

Robert Bork, Slouching toward Gomorrah, p166.

[reflecting]

Bump.... a must read.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this clear, powerful, accurate condemnation of the directions of the Supreme Court. This is one more reason why Robert Bork should have been on this Court, trying to prevent these depredations of the Constitution from the inside, rather than from the outside.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Replace Justice O'Connor -- But Which One?"

[don-o]

bump later

[vannrox]

Let's have George W. Bush appoint Judge Bork to the Supreme court. Let the Democrats chew over that!

[Gritty]

The stakes here aren't just "high". They are astronomical.

If the GOP fails on this crucial test, they will prove they no longer deserve to govern, and won't, for long.

[Sam Cree]

Although Mr. Bork makes some good points, I disagree with him on a fairly fundamental level.

The court, and the country, IMO, are not becoming more "liberationist," but more controlling. In other words, if sodomy is to be allowed, it is not because it is a natural right, with which we are endowed by our Creator, but because our government, in its munifiscence, has decreed that it be so.

What I am trying to say is that our moral chaos is a specific result of the ever increasing responsibility for our lives taken by the state and the thus inevitible ever decreasing responsibility for our lives taken by ourselves. It's what must happen in a socialist top down country. Or fascist country, for that matter, if that's where we are headed.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes/Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Bork is a genius. I love that man. It is disgusting, crying shame and tragedy he wasn't made a justice. I hope to God that Bush - and every single Republic [and any Democrats who aren't moral anarchist traitors] involved with the process - reads this article and takes it to heart.

Says it all.

Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.

[Mat_Helm]

This is a very good article and exactly the state of the Federal bench and the impact on our society. The SCOTUS is destroying the family one ruling at a time and the nation and society are suffering greatly. God help our children.

[lunarbicep]

bttt

[JCEccles]

In moral matters, each man is a separate sovereignty. In its insistence on radical personal autonomy, the Court assaults what remains of our stock of common moral belief

I have a hunch Bork's essay will not be well received by our resident and lurking libertarians.

[SuziQ]

The combination of absolute power, disdain for the historic Constitution, and philosophical incompetence is lethal.

Right on target!