ROBERT BORK CALLS MIERS NOMINATION "A DISASTER"

Tucker Carlson ^ | October 5, 2005 | Press Release

[Sam Hill]

ROBERT BORK CALLS THE HARRIET MIERS NOMINATION "A DISASTER" ON TONIGHT'S "THE SITUATION WITH TUCKER CARLSON"

SECAUCUS, NJ - October 7, 2005 - Tonight on MSNBC's "The Situation with Tucker Carlson," former judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork tells Tucker Carlson the Harriet Miers' nomination is "a disaster on every level," that Miers has "no experience with constitutional law whatever" and that the nomination is a "slap in the face" to conservatives.

Following is a transcript of the conversation, which will telecast tonight at 11 p.m. (ET). A full transcript of the show will be available later tonight at www.tv.msnbc.com. "The Situation with Tucker Carlson" telecasts Monday through Friday at 11 p.m. (ET).

[Dane]

For what it’s worth, my sense is that Harriet Miers will be, case by case, a more reliable vote against leftist judicial activism than her mercurial predecessor, Sandra Day O’Connor. Why do I say this? Well, she’s a strong supporter of the right to bear arms. The great Second Amendment expert Dave Kopel says you have to go back to Louis Brandeis 90 years ago to find a Supreme Court justice whose pre-nomination writings extol gun rights as fulsomely as Miss Miers. According to an old boyfriend, Judge Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court, she packs heat — a Smith & Wesson .45 — which I can say with certainty the other lady justice, the far-left Ruth Bader Ginsberg, never has. She is also very opposed to abortion, and a generous contributor to pro-life groups

The truth is -- and one would hardly know it from the mass media -- that since the Supreme Court's unanimous Miller decision in 1939, all federal appeals courts, whether dominated by liberals or conservatives, have agreed that the Second Amendment does not confer gun rights on individuals. The NRA view, opposed even by such right-wing judges as Robert Bork, has been consistently rejected

[nerdgirl]

a few people would like refunds right about now :)

[BCrago66]

HB is Harriet Miers, if her last name wasn't Meirs.

[BlueSky194]

All the Republicans should vote down Miers.
They should force Bush to chose again.

[cynicom]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ginsburg+hatch+supreme+court&btnG=Google+Search

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

He has resentments, and by any objective criteria he's entitled to them.

However, that does not diminish his perfectly legitimate criticism of Miers one jot, or make his strong reservations any less valid.

This nomination is a loser, and even the most ardent advocates of it realize that at some subconscious level.

[Sam Hill]

I didn't write it. I just posted it.

But you're right, of course. From the intials of the elements of the German fliegerabwehrkanone ‘pilot-defence-gun’. FLAK.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

So Judge Bork, was your nomination a flaming success?

[Black Tooth]

BORK IS JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE HE DIDNT GET NOMINATED

Bork is an unappeasable drooling slug.

:o)

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

No he doesn't, because it's an assertion that's grounded in the truth.

[Dane]

John Sununu: "Souter will be a homerun for conservatives." Trust President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Wake up. Trust does not mean jack, as we saw with Bush Sr

Uh Don'ty, GHWB did not know souter.

GWB has worked with Ms. Meirs for the last 10 years and Ms. Meirs has vetted many of GWB's judicial appointees.

You really love sitting on your own petard don't you.

[rlmorel]

Thank you. Umm...am I missing a code cypher in my decoder ring? She is single and has never been married, so...what would the "B" stand for?

I am probably being dense or ignorant, or both...thanks for the insight!

[hosepipe]

Judge Bork just passed judgement on the one(s) that selected Meirs.. She didnt put herself into the running for the job she was selected.. The same guy(s) selected Roberts too..

The Meirs selection paints Roberts with the agenda of the selectors.. The Meirs selection makes me suspicious of the Roberts selection too.. Both come from the same RINO hole..

Thanks Judge Bork.. it would have been much easier to say nothing on public record about this.. Roberts is in a position to much more harm.. than some old maid from Texas..

[Yossarian]

Hatch is the man that talked Clinton into appointing Ginsburg. Clinton had never heard of her.

Actually, the way I heard it was that a list of potential nominees was presented to Hatch, and Ruth Buzzy was actually the least objectionable on the list. Hard to believe, but true.

(Scratch that, we know just what kind of a Marxist HRC is, so we should all know just how evil her USSC picks were.)

[FreeReign]

I guess you'd want a brain surgeon who wasn't even a doctor!!

The Constitution was never meant to be brain surgery.

[IVote2]

I called no names, I called no one a hysteric. I asked a simple question. Do you honestly believe that if Bush withdrew Harriet Miers' name that he would be in a better position than he is now? Of course he wouldn't. He would have caved. That was and is my point.

The nomination has been made. Conservatives don't like it. Tough. Deal with it.

Do we want a weakened president for the next three years? Apparently so. I don't. We have a war to win. We have other problems to worry about.

Is this the last time GW will appoint someone? Is this the last Republican we will ever elect? Will this be the last opportunity to put another conservative on the Court? No! Not in my book.

Jen

[andy58-in-nh]

I dare say that Sen. Hatch's knowledge of Constitutional law likely exceeds that of the prospective Justice. More to the point, what will happen when she is questioned on fine points of the law from more hostile quarters? And believe me, they will be brutal. The President has put himself in a very difficult position for reasons we can only guess at. I'm willing to give Ms. Miers the benefit of the doubt, and I await her hearing in the hope that she will pleasantly surprise us. In any event, her level of Constituitonal sophistication will matter greatly when it comes time to consider reversing some of the most egregious decisions of the past 40 years.

[uncbob]

Is it possible that the President may have signed the campaign finance bill OVER her objections? Has she come out and made statements in support of THAT abortion?

Don't know BUT I do remember all the hate and venom directed at us here who took Bush to task for signing that piece of crap

We were all assured that the SCOTUS would reject it ( never mind that the president has an obligation to VETO what he considers unconstitutional) and that is was a master stoke of political genius on the part of Bush and Rove

[cynicom]

Abv is a url...That is just one of many.

[msnimje]

LOL! I'm curious how many other previously well thought of people will be sacrificed by those upset that everyone is not happy about this nomination and exercising their constitutional freedom to say so. Savaging everyone that speaks up is becoming a huge joke on the part of those engaging in it.

Not only that, the very President some of us blindly worship (or worshiped) is a stalwart supporter of DISSENT! He knows it is a bedrock principle of a free and Democratic Society. This is why he says, often to cheers here on these boards, that he does not care about Political Polls.

In his speech about Islamofascist yesterday he said of them:

"They seek to end dissent in every form, and to control every aspect of life, and to rule the soul, itself. While promising a future of justice and holiness, the terrorists are preparing for a future of oppression and misery."

So the Bush supporters, who are attacking other Bush Supporters who have voiced their dissent in regards to this nomination, are in fact going against the President's heartfelt philosophy.