Robert Bork dies

[workerbee]

R.I.P. Robert.That's the opinion of some, not all.

Lets define a " great Supreme Court justice"

[reg_indy]

Lets define a " great Supreme Court justice"

Don't know that any of us have seen one...

Or would know what one is.

[EmDot]

Baloney. If you were honest for a change you would just say you dont think any conservative judge belongs on the SC. Bork head and shoulders intellectually over that light weight Latina Sotomayer who is only on the Court because of her sex and ethnicity.

I'll admit I haven't been crazy about some of the conservative decisions recently down by the courts. But the most I've done is to have shaken my head at their decisions. Whereas just the thought of Kagan and Sotomayer makes the rabid right . . . well, rabid.

Lets define a " great Supreme Court justice"

Maybe you should ask veritas since he made the claim that Bork would have been one.

[zenwalk]

Lots of people forget the controversial decision many held against Bork.

Chemical company gave female employees the choice of remaining employed or getting sterilized. Women sued company, Bork backed company.

Also Bork was the guy who agreed to fire the Watergate special prosecutor as Nixon ordered--Bork's boss and his boss' boss both resigned in protest. Bork had no such scruples. Of course Nixon was then impeached and a new prosecutor put in place.

Bazinga!

[skeemer]

Don't know that any of us have seen one...

Or would know what one is.

Many times the repercussions of contemporary decisions are not felt for a generation or more.

[ms maggie]

Thanks, read it. The company enacted the policy to protect women of child bearing age from being exposed to llead levels they could not lower to protect fetuses from miscarriages or birth defects. The only alternative to that policy would have been to close the department and put all 30 women employed there out of work. The Court held that the policy was permitted under the statute as it was writen by Congress.

They could, and later did lower lead levels. They couldn't do it inexpensively.

(Sorry I didn't post a link, just pulled from memory!) Strictly from the point of view of respect for the law and balance of powers found his Watergate action more troubling--supporting the President firing the Special Prosecutor who was appointed by the legislature to investigate the President. Yikes.

Imagine, just imagine, if Clinton had tried a stunt like that.