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Maddow explains why we should be glad Robert Bork was not confirmed
Wednesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow offered a eulogy of sorts for conservative icon Judge Robert Bork, whose extreme right-wing views made him too conservative for a U.S. Supreme Court that has made bench room for men like Justice Antonin Scalia. Bork passed away on Wednesday…
Controversial lawyer Robert Bork dies at age 85
By Godfrey Hodgson, The Guardian Controversial lawyer and legal scholar who was a pugnacious standard bearer for the American right Robert Bork, who has died aged 85, was one of the most controversial American legal scholars of his generation. After two of President Richard Nixon’s attorney generals had refused to obey…
Scalia: Not A Conservative Jurist After All
After Sarah Palin declared the existence a Constitutional right to privacy, conservatives were left with one of two options: do you stick with the consistent (if wrong) judicial philosophy of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork (among others) that determines a right to privacy as so much manufactured nonsense,…
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