Robert Bork
Robert Bork
Robert Heron Borkwas an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 March 1927
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
educational egalitarianism achievement
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
democracy way majority
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
fashion wind law
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept
jobs men thinking
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing
judging assuming made
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions
children enlightenment reason
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
time children reading
If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.
careers organization law
The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.
country law justice
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.
law judging decision
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.
constitution
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution
new-york television body
One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.
law purpose separation
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
men ideas judging
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.