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Topic: Judicial Confirmation ‘Hit a New
Low’ with ´87 Partisan Attacks on
Bork, Top Legal Experts Say |
Judicial Confirmation ‘Hit a New
Low’ with ´87 Partisan Attacks on
Bork, Top Legal Experts Say
Cybercast News Service, by Pete Winn
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 12/20/2012 3:47:53 PM
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| One of America’s foremost experts on constitutional law says the death of Judge Robert H. Bork Wednesday is not only a cause for mourning for many, but should also be the cause for some soul-searching. “Judge Bork was a towering figure in constitutional theory over the last 50 years,” former U.S. Judge Michael McConnell told CNSNews.com on Wednesday. (snip) “I think that his death should cause a lot of people to be doing some soul searching about the way in which the judicial confirmation process is conducted, because his nomination battle was really the first
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 12/20/2012 4:14:34 PM (No. 9076576)
Dhimmocrats don´t care, anyone who doesn´t agree with them deserves destruction...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/20/2012 4:32:07 PM (No. 9076610)
Pay close attention to who they hate the most.
These are our best people.
See: Palin,Sarah...Gengrich,Newton
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 12/20/2012 4:45:05 PM (No. 9076626)
Those confirmation hearings were the beginning of the Era of the Politics of Personal Destruction. Even with ´´Teddy the Swimmer´´ killed that girl at Chappaquiddick did his enemies deride and abrade him like he did to Bork.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 12/20/2012 5:16:10 PM (No. 9076651)
And instead we got a chick who´d rather write children´s books...
On the bright side, at least Dear Leader doesn´t get to replace him. RIP, Mr. Bork. Job well done.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
volksford, 12/20/2012 5:22:31 PM (No. 9076654)
So,what do you expect..they were Democrats.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ccyr, 12/20/2012 5:25:41 PM (No. 9076657)
and John Tower was the first "new low" in confirmation hearings for the cabinet.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/20/2012 6:24:25 PM (No. 9076727)
I´m pretty sure Bork and Specter will not be in the same location in the afterlife.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Judith, 12/20/2012 7:13:09 PM (No. 9076785)
Led by teddy kennedy, the dreg(can it be singular?) of humanity.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 12/20/2012 7:18:15 PM (No. 9076796)
How Bork was treated is part of the reason of how the country came to be in it´s current mess. The nation´s best people are attacked, vilified, mocked and belittled because they are a threat to Democrats and the left. The Democrats have no one comparable to the intelligent, educated, experienced and patriotic people that represents conservatism.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Quaestio, 12/20/2012 10:27:40 PM (No. 9076944)
Mr. Bork was the canary in the coal mine. Our nation now caters to the non-information voters and discards those who aspire to higher calling.
I now think the administration´s goal is to remove the U.S. as a superpower within the next four years - you know, level the playing field. And I don´t see anything stopping that.
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