Triablogue (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... truthfully say that it informs their attitudes and significantly affects their behavior." (Robert Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah [New York, New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1997], pp. 279-280) "It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that he is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant....
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... respected as she may be. There are exceptions, of course, such as when the left rose up to fight Robert Bork or Clarence Thomas. Daily, though, the 10 most important conservative activists put judicial selection nearer to the top of the list of things they care about than do the 10 most important liberal activists. Similarly, because the Democratic Party has a much broader coalition...
The WyBlog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... has their banality. Cry me a river Mikey. I have two words for you, and those two words are "Robert Bork". And here are two more, "Miguel Estrada". Remember when your buddies at The New York Times called the filibuster a cornerstone of our democracy? Well, sure you do! That was back when you and your liberal friends were defending your saintly ideals from the specter...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... to deny or disparage others retained by the people." That noted nonfan of construing, Robert Bork, once disparagingly if not outright denyingly called the Ninth "an inkblot," proving textualism is as textualism does. Though the amendment had been successfully theorized into irrelevance before Bork and Scalia were born, shouldn't they be the ones insisting it...
LyfLines (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... was essentially single-handedly responsible for defeating the nomination to the Supreme Court of Robert Bork. That spot ended up going to Anthony (no relation) Kennedy, who provided the fifth and deciding vote to legalize theft and destruction against the good people of New London.
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
How 'Planned Parenthood v. Casey' (Pretty Much) Settled the Abortion Wars is a new article by Neal Devins, William & Mary Law School. It appears in the Yale Law Journal, Vol. 118, p. 1318, 2009. Here's the abstract: More than twenty-one years after Robert Bork’s failed Supreme Court nomination and seventeen years after Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey,...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... I asked which Specter we would see if reelected in 2010 -- the one who was instrumental in keeping Robert Bork out of the Supreme Court, or the one who was equally instrumental in helping Clarence Thomas get there. Specter didn't come off as particularly contrite or remorseful for his role during the Thomas hearings, defending the line of questioning he pursued at the time. For the...
JONATHAN TURLEY (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... in pulling plug on the program, here . The federal law was passed when Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork’s video tastes were disclosed during his contentious nomination fight. His selection were a bit more impressive than Harris’: A Day at the Races, Ruthless People and The Man Who Knew Too Much . Ruthless People can be forgiven as preparation for his time before Congress. The Video...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN NYT WASHINGTON — On paper, Representative Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat from Florida, seems a bit stiff: degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law; a résumé that includes clerking for the United States Court of Appeals under Judges Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Robert Bork; an advocate for the aging. But in recent weeks, Mr. Grayson...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
On paper, Representative Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat from Florida, seems a bit stiff: degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law; a résumé that includes clerking for the United States Court of Appeals under Judges Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Robert Bork; an advocate for the aging. But in recent weeks, Mr. Grayson has catapulted himself to national renown for outlandish rhetoric...
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
A typical offering from New York Times : Alan Grayson, the Liberals’ Problem Child By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN November 1, 2009 WASHINGTON — On paper, Representative Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat from Florida, seems a bit stiff: degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law; a résumé that includes clerking for the United States Court of Appeals under Judges Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Robert...
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... was routinely dubbed a nuclear-trigger-happy “amiable dunce”? I was young then, so I’ll check with Robert Bork and see what he thinks.Perhaps it was in the 1960s and 1970s? Sure, there was admirable civil disobedience in the beginning, but there was a lot more uncivil disobedience, what with all the domestic terror attacks and the protesters asking LBJ how many kids he killed today.The...
