One thing to bear in mind is that the anger was not just that Bork was scuttled but that he was replaced by Kennedy, who turned out to be soft on key social issues (abortion, LGBT rights). This is what the right sees as the great betrayal.https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1308027968191565830 …
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Frankly Borks preference for legislative actions over the rights based dialogue of many legal debates would put him very much at odds with more libertarian Federalist type judges that would emerge over the next 25 years
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Unfortunately.... in this political climate...
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If they had nominated Bjork instead, many of these problems wouldn’t have existed
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This is perhaps the only good take in the history of twitter
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He was an extremist. Maybe some utility as a legal academic, bit did not belong anywhere near the SC. Also, he is also almost singlehandedly responsible for the sorry state of anti-trust enforcement.
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Back in like the 80s. In 2020? He’s a moderate centrist.
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They should nominate Bork again he’d sail through confirmation in 2020.
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He's dead.
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The names of the Republican Senators that voted against him all belong to the now extinct species call "Republican Moderates or liberals:" Chaffee, Packwood, Stafford, Specter, & Warner. The closes any current Republican comes to this group is Murkowski.
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Frankly his participation in the Saturday Night Massacre should have been absolutely disqualifying all by itself. It's insane that the GOP somehow managed to re-write history and paint him as a martyr of partisan obstructionism, with no apparent pushback from the left.
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