Judge Robert Bork Blasts Elena Kagan

Bork “Liberty in America can be enhanced by reinstating, legislatively, restraints upon the direction of our culture and morality. Censorship as an enhancement of liberty may seem paradoxical. Yet it should be obvious, to all but dogmatic First Amendment absolutists, that people forced to live in an increasingly brutalized culture are, in a very real sense, not wholly free.” Judge Posner once wrote that the alternative to allowing an unregulated speech marketplace is permitting government censorship, leaving “the government in control of all the institutions of culture, the great censor and director of which thoughts are good for us”
So how many right wingers still admire this fascist?

“Ms. Kagan has not had the time to develop a mature philosophy of judging,” said Bork.
He then proceeded to shake his fist and angrily insist she keep off his lawn.

Does anybody even listen to ABC anymore? I am here only becuase of the link from Drudge. You liberal haters are too much. So enlightened, so wise.
Ha Ha Ha I am LMAO at you. and oh by the way, how’s Peter Jennings? Did he go back to Canada? Haven’t heard from him in a while. Who is on your network?

I just wish someday a politician, judge or government official will live up to the oath of office.

Borks views on Kagan interested me…until he made the comment Kagan’s nomination was rooted in the president’s desire to make history with the nomination of an additional woman to serve on the high court. “For some reason, presidents get all excited for having ‘firsts’, and this would be the first court with three female judges on it,” Bork said.
Come on Bork. That’s a stretch. Maybe if she was the first woman…but the third woman doesn’t even raise an eyebrow on anyone but you.
Bork should have said something like the Obama was excited to have the “shortest woman” in the courts history.
That would have been a REAL first.

I liked Bork through his whole process. I’ve disliked Kagan since I started hearing things about her in the liberal press. Although there is not a requirement for previous judicial seats for the Supreme Court, there should be. In the past the Congress and the President had legal bodies review EVERYONE that was considered for the court. Why did the peer review end?

“In the past the Congress and the President had legal bodies review EVERYONE that was considered for the court. Why did the peer review end?”
It didn;t though the Bush admin decided to ignore any ratings from the ABA good or bad.
Wiki: In 2001, the George W. Bush administration announced that it would cease cooperating with the ABA in advance of judicial nominations. The ABA continues to rate nominees.
LAT”Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has received the stamp of approval from the American Bar Assn. less than a week before her confirmation hearing begins on Capitol Hill.
Sotomayor, a sitting federal appeals judge in New York, was deemed “well qualified” to serve as an associate justice on the high court by an ABA panel — the highest rating the national attorney organization bestows.”

Is Bork thinking straight? He criticizes Kagan for being a “young lawyer going into constitutional law”, and lacking “maturity”?
Huh? She’s 50, for God’s sake – and a highly esteemed constitutional scholar. Kagan is only 10 years younger than Bork was when the Senate wisely rejected his nomination. She’s the same age as John Roberts when he was made Chief Justice, and 7 years OLDER than Clarence Thomas when he was appointed (with far less experience of the law).
Bork has been a professional right-wing martyr for 23 years, and a meddling, moralizing hypocrite of the first order. His fellow Conservatives on the Supreme Court have turned out to be more activist than the Liberals they rail at. A pox on them all.

Supreme justice would be if Kagan gets “Borked.”

Wrong would be to have Kagan in SCOTUS – no matter how the libs try to explain things, Kagan is a stubborn lefty, and immediately after her (hypothetical) appointment, she would strike. Beware left wing judges in difficult times like the age we face – only discord and strife will result from her interpretations of the Constitution -

50 years old is certainly not young per se for a Supreme Court candidate, as others have pointed out.
I think what Bork means to say she is young in terms of litigation or judging experience – she has done very little litigation, relatively speaking (compared to say Roberts, who had a long record of Supreme Court and appellate litigation), and none at all as a judge.
Of course, even this is no guarantee of judicial restraint. Some of the most activist justices (say, Brennan and Souter) had fairly lengthy records on state supreme courts.

ABC; NBC – CBS…
The opiate of the Useless Idiots.
What was done to Judge Bork was criminal. It was the Kennedy Hackarama introducing the concept of Total Warfare to our political process. And Clinton & Obama learned well.
Communist tools!

Like Judge Bork said, it isn’t so much her philosophy, but add her lack of experience and that would be a force-multiplier when she erred.

Bork her!

Question for Ms. Kagen…
If Mr. Obama is finally forced into producing his long-form birth certificate and it turns out he was not born in the US… will she accept the logic that he is still a constituionally naturally born citizen since his unwed minor mother was a citizen???

When the Republicans have no worthwhile policies or positions they resort to character assassination.
I don’t see any policies other than hypocrisy.

Mr. Tapper,
When are you going to join Fox News? You are above ABC.
Respectfully,
Mary J Arrell

Another Jew on the Supreme court? That’s one third Jewish, Zero protestants and the res catholic. Yeah that represent America alright. Thanks Bam !
Posted by: Jeff | Jun 23, 2010 10:55:58 PM
The current President has only nominated one of the Supreme Court members.
You can not blame any imbalance on him as much as you might like to.
Your bias against the President is blinding you to simple fact.

Excuse me? David W says the republicans resort to character assasination? Robt Bork merely stated that Kagan doesn’t have enough experience. I don’t call that character assassination–particularly when the democrats warned that with Bork in the SCOTUS “Blacks would be forced to eat at separate lunch counters and women would be forced into back-alley abortions”. No character assassination there.

Human rights is a term used to often to infringe upon the freedom of individuals. The freedom of individuals is the most important human right of all though, for without freedom any other right can be easily taken away.
Kagan does seem to be much further to the left then the media portrays her. That conclusion is reached after reading several of her articles and other papers.
Now is not the time for a further to the left Supreme Court. While I am sure the 20-30% of the US population that are progressives would love that, it is not what the nation or the rest of the people in this country need in a Supreme Court justice.

Bork’s statements make sense. The Supreme Court is the last defense against the tyranny of the the government. The people should be able to have some measure of reliability that the court is there to serve them, not an agenda.
Although many have criticized the current court for some decisions, I have noticed one thing in those decisions: the court often talks of the people and their rights, the freedoms of each individual, those are important things for courts to consider.
“”Ms. Kagan has not had the time to develop a mature philosophy of judging,” said Bork in a conference call organized by Americans United for Life.
“It is typical of young lawyers going into constitutional law that they have inflated dreams of what constitutional law can do and what courts can do,” Bork said. “That’s the danger of Ms. Kagan that she hasn’t had any experience that would lead her to mellow…the academia is not a place where you use prudence and caution and other virtues of a judge.”"

Anybody that ugly scares me. When the serial killer is caught normally its “up they looked messed up”
Kagan is the ugliest creature I have ever seen. Everything in the universe is energy and energy is organized by frequency and frequencies create patterns and symmetry. Kagan has no symmetry. So what I am saying is this half man half goat is f’d up.
Plus add in no experience and hiding a lot of political documents and friends with the Marxist and you get a not a chance on your life vote.

@Dave W
Perhaps the “Republican policy” is to hold on to the few real liberties that remain for Americans. The Bill of Rights is almost daily assailed by one clearly unconstitutional bill after another. If present leftist trends continue, there will be only a skeleton left of the Constitution. The so-called “living document” (it was never so intended) will be dead, and the despots will be standing in line to rule this once proud nation. Kagan is clearly unqualified…yet another at best mediocre nominee.
Folks, these people are appointed for LIFE. The Supreme Court has more real power than the other two branches of government combined. There is no limit to the mischief they can do in a lifetime on the bench!

The lady hasn’t even been a justice of the peace. And now, our incompetent president wants her on the supreme court?

Dave W, if the republicans have serious concern over a nominee you call it character assassination, what do you call all the times democrats destroyed nominees because they did not see it their way.

Apologizing to BP is Republican policy.
Posted by: Ryan C | Jun 24, 2010 1:27:39 PM
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A Republican policy? Cite please.