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
fashion wind law
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept
educational egalitarianism achievement
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
independent broken people
Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history, and few people are willing to see its power broken. The difficulty with all proposals to respond to the Court when it behaves unconstitutionally is that they would create a power to destroy the Court's essential work as well.
law judging democracy
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
confirmed happen hearings john roberts time wisdom
The conventional wisdom right now is that John Roberts will be confirmed just as the conventional wisdom in 1987 going into the hearings was that Robert Bork would be confirmed, ... You never know what's going to happen at a hearing. I think that's been demonstrated time and again.