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
radical-feminism feminist western-culture
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.
sailing ships shallow
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
life-and-love law government
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
groups strategy abandoned
There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.
law purpose separation
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
democracy way majority
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
judging assuming made
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions
church politics zeitgeist
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.
careers organization law
The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.
country law justice
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.
law judging decision
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.
judging people liberty
When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.
philosophy want-something gathering
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.
constitution
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution