Anthony And Ted Kennedy: Borking Marriage, America

IBD ^ | June 26 2015 | IBD

[WilliamIII]

Advice And Consent: Liberals are cheering "conservative" Justice Anthony Kennedy for the votes he cast on gay marriage, ObamaCare and minority housing rights. But it's another Kennedy they should be thanking.

It was because Ted Kennedy "borked" President Reagan's first choice for a vacancy on the bench in 1987 that the Left has Justice Kennedy to do its bidding. The Democrat senator led a witch hunt against true conservative Robert Bork, smearing the respected jurist as a right-wing troglodyte.

After the Senate rejected Bork, 58-42, Reagan turned to conservative Douglas Ginsburg, who was impeached in the liberal media before he ever got the chance to raise his hand in the Senate. That left a frustrated Reagan with a distant third choice — a nominal San Francisco conservative who met with enough liberal approval to sail through confirmation.

And Anthony McLeod Kennedy didn't disappoint his Democrat rubber-stampers. Five years later, despite stated pro-life views, he supplied the fifth vote to re-affirm Roe v. Wade.

Now, with his swing vote allowing gay marriage, he's being embraced as the "first gay justice" by the LGBT lobby.

[Theodore R.]

I didn’t remember that, but Howard Baker was always a big TN disappointment.