Robert Bork: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings from PBS NewsHour and EMK Institute

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As the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan get underway, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is partnering with the PBS NewsHour to provide video highlights of the nine most recent Senate confirmation hearings.

President Reagan nominated Judge Bork to the Supreme Court on July 1, 1987. After a heated confirmation battle, the Senate rejected his nomination by a 42-58 vote on October 23, 1987.

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[Zachw2007]

Judge Bork should be on the Supreme Court right now.

[jpschubbs]

Biden is such a f*cking moron. This guy has been in government his entire life. he knows nothing other how to whore himself out to the highest bidder.

[horizonrusted]

Biden is not a moron. Bork is. He makes it sounds as if there is no way that police could enter a house without a warrant & arrest someone for not using contraception, when it was just these circumstances that led to two men to be arrested for engaging in homosexual acts. See Bowers versus Hardwick.

[nedster7]

@odinswald Thank you for your supportive reply. It would be great if Congress were kept busy repealing laws. That would be amazing. Yet it need not take years. They could write 1 law that says something like, " Congress hereby repeals all laws beginning with, blah, blah, blah." They'll never do this but it would be awesome. Poor people and minorities would flourish. At the least, restrictions would be lifted to teach folks "how to fish." Others, we'd help voluntarily.

[odinswald]

@nedster7 I agree most laws need to be repealed as their unintended consequences are limiting our freedoms and doing nothing, or making worse, for the lives of the ones they are purported to help. This action of massive repeals would probably keep Congress busy day and night for years.

[nedster7]

@lessthan3ninja Biden creeps into people's homes at night and drinks their blood. Then he digs in your pockets for loose change. Then he laughs because he helped write laws that protect him from prosecution. All in the name of helping women and minorities. Yay!

[nedster7]

@DeepHauz13 We only elect clowns. It is a reflection of us and why we are in the state we're in.

[nedster7]

@KidSheIeen Decent people are painted in the media as monsters. He would have been a massive improvement over any of the clowns that sit on the Supreme Court. He actually cares about limited laws applied equally and how they protect every individual: men, women, children, foreigners, etc.

[nedster7]

@odinswald Wouldn't it be great if Congress only met one or two times a year? We need not only a freezing in the creation of new federal laws, we need to repeal most of them. We are being painted into a corner where the individual citizen has no right to do anything. God forbid Vermont should choose one way to live, and South Carolina another. Nobody in their right mind is going to support a business that is segregated, or racist. Don't need federal protection for any of this stuff.

[nedster7]

@Zachw2007 I totally agree. We would be somewhat better off. For example: There will always be people for or against, abortion. Can the matter be settled one way or the other at the federal level? Obviously not. An imperfect solution: let the states decide these issues, which is their proper sphere, and ultimately, let the decision be as private as possible between a woman, her family and physician. Heaven forbid that matters remained private and untaxed where they belong.

[exenrontexas]

Read "The Forty Year War" to seem how the Nixon White House and Mr. Bork and many others were a nest of rats all trying to undermine each other and CYA. Bork was not the worst of them but he did not behave honorable by any means. IMHO The Kraemerites caused the War in Vietnam to be unnecessarily prolonged and Bork was one of them, The blood of thousands of GIs are one their hands. The worst Kraemerites were Kissinger and Haig who also undermined each other.

[lessthan3ninja]

21:52

He's a good reason why so many people look down on Country Folk...