The other thing to remember about Bork is that after his disastrous hearings, he lost support from many ordinary conservatives (although not conservative movement) for his brutal argument that companies had the right to tell female employees they should be sterilized or lose job
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It's been completely whitewashed from history but Bork's pro-sterilization position turned some conservatives against him and explains why six Republican Senators voted against him.
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Kennedy+Souter (although Souter was largely a self-inflicted blow).
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Oh, like the left isn't already "angry and organized" over Supreme Court appointments. Yeah, they mad. But they were already mad. And they'll stay mad. There's not really a "more mad" place to get to.
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Be careful what you wish for. As a Leftist, Trump radicalizing liberal PUMAS, the KHive, & former Republicans to the point court packing & abolishing the filibuster are now on the table was not something I had on my bingo card for this year & 2020 is more radicalizing than 1968.
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so instead of 100% of what they want, they got like 85%
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Indeed—one of Douthat's big complaints today is that the GOP is somehow owed something for Souter, Kennedy, and Stevens being insufficiently in the tank.
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Fortas was corrupt in neither the worst way... nor a readily defensible one. The result is Dems accede to the Dixiecrat - GOP filibuster of 1968 as forgotten history despite that being the actual origin of modern SCOTUS fights.
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Yes, but also Brown v Board.
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