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
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Once the justices depart, as most of them have, from the original understanding of the principles of the Constitution, they lack any guidance other than their own attempts at moral philosophy, a task for which they have not even minimal skills. Yet when it rules in the name of the Constitution, whether it rules truly or not, the Court is the most powerful branch of government in domestic policy. The combination of absolute power, disdain for the historic Constitution, and philosophical incompetence is lethal.
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The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
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The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.
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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
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As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.
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Everybody else I've talked to ranges between disapproval and outrage.
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attest to the vital importance of candor and confidentiality in the solicitor general's decision-making process.
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Consumers will benefit from multiple sources of innovation,
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confirm a nominee with no visible judicial philosophy who lacks the basic skills of persuasive argument and clear writing.
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Only 1.5 Percent of Law Professors Sign Letter Opposing Roberts.
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My guess would be he will not participate in creating new constitutional rights
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Without adherence to the original understanding, even the actual Bill of Rights could be pared or eliminated. It is asserted nonetheless, and sometimes on high authority, that the judicial philosophy of original understanding is fatally defective in any number of respects.
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We all have to have some sympathy for her.
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The opposition reflected the polarization that existed in this country.