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Summary: America's Real Supreme Court Justice
Review: This book is a treasure, to be read again and again. If our republic is to stay strong, this book will be credited with helping its rebirth.
If you want to know what a real, solid American supreme court judge should think, study Bork. You may lose friends, make new enemies, but you will be doing the right thing for your country.
Left-wing liberals assasinated Robert Bork's character and moderate Republicans let this great judge hang out to dry. But the truth always eventually comes to light, as this classic demonstrates.
For those who did not see the hearings of Bork before the Senate Judiciary committee, what you need to know is that the committee conducted a kangaroo court reminiscent of a bunch of hack communist apparatchiks in some backwater Soviet satellite regime.
Immediately upon President Reagan's appointing Bork, Senator Edward Kennedy forever disgraced himself by running in front of microphones and cameras to bleet about "Robert Bork's America . . ." Kennedy's remarks will go down as another demonstration of the total bankruptcy of moderan American liberalism.
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Summary: Judge Bork would have made a great Justice- and they know it
Review: To make a long story short, the media did an first-rate hatchet job (one of the best of all time) in painting this balanced, admittedly conservative (judicial restraint etc.), and extremely fair minded jurist as some sort of crazy, backwards racist. Judge Bork has more legal acumen than several justices sitting on the Court right now. His clear and concise overview of substantive due process and the slippery slope of unwarranted judicial expansion that began with Lochner v. New York (where the Court overturned a state law which set hourly labor standards) to Griswold v. Conn., which created a "right to privacy" out of thin air, is basic Constitutional Law 101 that even non-lawyers or the general public should be familiar with. Bork makes in this book the same case that he was simply unable to fully articulate on TV and in the Senate confirmation hearings: The Constitution gives the power of the Judicial Branch to interpret, not to make the law. It sounds plain enough, but when you read this, you (should)realize that one of the all-time biggest media smears caused an injustice to be done to this wise judge.Bork is dry in spots here, but certainly not as dry as your average law school textbook or basic court opinion.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: While I don't agree with everything that Robert Bork stands for, this book is an excellent read if you're interested in how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted by the courts. It's also shocking to see how most senators just don't get it (what I mean by that is that it's not a matter of disagreement, it's a matter of intellectual grasp). Bork presents an admirable defense of the rule of law, which I would agree is constantly under attack by people who want to politicize the judiciary.
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Summary: A Book whose time has come again...
Review: With the replacement of Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist imminent, Robert Bork's (the man who would-be
Supreme if not blocked/"borked" by Ted Kennedy, Joseph Biden & Co.)now classic study of the history of Supreme Court decision making will again enter Public glare.Key among Bork's topics is his expatiation on the infamous
DRED SCOTT decision of 1857(which declared black slaves property;unprotected by civil rights accorded human beings and Constitutionally deprived of ever being citizens of the United States). The perversion of "procedural" language, law, and OPINION into SUBSTANTIVE rights (& concomittant Federal/State/Personal-privacy obligations) begins here, and ends (Round I) with the American Civil War.The article is entitled: Chief Justice Taney and Dred Scott:The Court invites Civil War (pp.28-34). Americans of good faith are invited to peruse it. Round 2...focused on the infamous Roe v. Wade Abortion decision of January 1973... is equally imminent.The climax is uncertain. But those who do not understand the MENE,MENE,TEKEL,UPHARSIN implications of the last two Presidential elections, or believe the BLUE/RED divide is an excuse for homies of the Boston Globe, NYT,Time Magazine, and Maureen Dowd-clones to make hay b....ing editorially on Bill Mahr (or Fox) forums need to find a version of DANIEL sehr fast. President Bush may not be a President Lincoln but what may be coming may require "a man for the ages". Forget about THE FAITHFUl; read an important book that tries to explain "why every drop of blood drawn...shall be paid by another...[Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865; Second Inaugural Address]10 stars...
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