Democrats Politicized Supreme Court Reacting to Robert Bork Nomination?

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With Justice John Paul Stevens retiring from the U.S Supreme Court, Fox News has been spreading a common Republican talking point claiming that Supreme Court nominations were first politicized by the way DEMOCRATS reacted to Pres. Ronald Reagan's 1987 nomination of Robert Bork, but that talking point is not accurate as I show in this video.

The clips I use of Fox News anchor Chris Wallace come from a segment of the Fox News program "Happening Now" broadcast on April 9, 2010 (which I have not been able to find online).

The clip I use of Karl Rove criticizing Sen. Ted Kennedy during Kennedy's funeral comes from my video titled "Karl Rove Trashes Ted Kennedy on Day of Funeral?" available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwDEWmI14ig

The clips I use of MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" come from the segment broadcast on April 9, 2010, available online at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36343303

And, finally, the image I use of Stephen Gillers' Cardozo Law Review article titled "The Compelling Case Against Robert H. Bork" comes from the webpage at http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.jou...

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[gamerunknown]

@SelectHawk

I suppose I was just playing the devil's advocate. It's strange though, Bork was at least apologetic, there's a whole group (Mises, Ron Paul) that still opposes civil rights.

[SelectHawk]

@gamerunknown It is better to legalize and regulate something, so long as it isn't terribly immoral. And we can decide where to draw the line (no-one is in favor of late-term abortions, unless there are very good reasons). Also, just because someone's wiki says something now doesn't mean that that person believed those things, or would have acted on those beliefs.

[SelectHawk]

@Patriot751 Is demigod supposed to be an insult? What, you think he was the son of Zeus or something? Or are you going by the highly honored and revered definition? Either way, it doesn't make sense.And OUR candidates spit on the constitution? That is why the ACLU is considered liberal, right? 'Cause we liberals HATE constitutional rights. What constitutional rights do the conservatives defend? Oh, right. The NRA is all over the most important right.

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, LiberalViewer.

[Patriot751]

Chris Wallace is a Democrat. He is speaking opinion. Ted Kennedy was a drunken out of control demigod. He ran around demanding everyone pay taxes and hid his money overseas. He was a first class hypocrite and deserved to go to prison for murdering that woman. You Democrats are always saying conservatives are making political hay of supreme court nominee's, talk about the pot and kettle.Our nominee's are constitutional scholars and yours are lefty hacks who spit on the constitution.Bid difference

[gamerunknown]

Bork opposed segregation, on his wiki he has an excellent passage on why "separate but equal" was a bad doctrine and how the Brown vs. Board decision was the correct one. So Ted Kennedy was wrong on that.

I also don't like the "back-alley abortion" thing: just because things occur on the black market doesn't mean they should be legalised. Assassinations are carried out in the back alley, doesn't make them moral. I'm a little mixed though, I don't mind abortion before the CNS develops.

[jpsartrean]

While no Fox News fan by any stretch - the assessment there was spot on. Kennedy's attack on Bork was largely inaccurate or - at best - incomplete. Bork was UNQUESTIONABLY qualified to sit on the Court. Had he been confirmed, Bork and Scalia would have reasoned many cases the same - and, despite what the vast legion of critics might say, Justice Scalia is among the most capable jurists this country has ever seen. ELECTIONS MATTER - and capable nominees should be confirmed regardless of ideology.

[TheNotebartello]

That abstinence from giving his own desires free play, that continuing and self-conscious renunciation of power, that is the morality of the jurist.

- Robert Bork

[bcomber38]

The democrats and liberals are whats wrong with this country.Why do they want to kill babies.and if you don't kill your child they want to tell you how to raise your child.What kind of people do this?Evil!!!

[bannor99]

@insuranator Watch - the - whole - video - please ; it was about the beginnings of an attempt by the Reagan Righteous to overturn Roe vs Wade by stacking the Supreme Court.