Yeah, that looks like it.
Hey, maybe that button I have from the time of the confirm hrgs, his name with the red slash thru it, will be worth something now!
Am I the only one here who actually read Slouching Toward Gomorrah? It is the leaden and portentous prose of a born scold, a hundred words drag by like ten thousand. He bewails the undermining and destruction of the uptight moral values of his America, as performed by…well, me and mine, to a large degree.
I hadn’t laughed so hard since they shot Old Yeller! His raging hatred brought a song to my heart, and lifted my spirits unto the skies! Robert Bork hated me, and mine, and everything we stood for! And to think, I never sent him a thank you card!
Rest in Peace, and adios, motherfucker.
elucidator: I love you and want to be a part of “you and yours.” Can I, like, marry your sister? Or subscribe to your blog? Or is it enough that I agree with you, and consider Robert Heron Bork’s legacy to be “smug, ugly, whiny-butt opponent of civil rights,” and, flouting the stricture to say no ill of the dead, ptui on him. “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
I am pleased to learn that this reactionary is dead. No lose for me, only fresher air to breathe.
His personal legacy is anti-trust thought leadership.
His name will be used as the beginning (or restarting) as the current era of nastiness and obfuscation in confirmation hearings.
The Left traded Bork for Thomas in the end (yes, Kenned took his seat - but many consider Thomas to be the trade off).
Here is Slate’s commentary:
I looked at it in Barnes and Noble once. I remember how he railed against the 1960s as the root of all evil. I sort of thought I might find a place where he admitted that those pushing for change were right about certain things like racial equality. No such luck.
I will miss Bork in one way: He was one of the best person whose opinion I could rely on if there was an issue that I was too lazy to study: See what Bork thinks and then the opposing opinion is the reasonable one. It was really amazing to me how he could be wrong about every issue. I mean, even Scalia got the flag burning issue right (as I recall)…but not Bork. He was the perfect combination of an extreme libertarian on pocketbook issues and a fascist on civil liberties issues.
May he rest in peace.
He also wrote the excellent The Tempting of America: Political Seduction of the Law for which he should be remembered.
This is one of those times when I think the inability of the internet to convey sarcasm vs seriousness has my stumped.
I didn’t realize until tonight that Bork was the nominee who, as a federal judge, upheld a company’s requirement that the women who worked for them could either be made infertile or lose their jobs. These jobs were in a plant that had to do with nuclear material in some way. What a horrible mandate.
If Romney had been elected President, Bork would have been his advisor on appointing federal judges. (Shudder)
Yeah, cite? preferably a the Judgement itself?
Oil, Chemical, & Atomic Workers International Union v. American Cyanamid Co., 741 F.2d 444 [D.C. Cir. 1984]
Well I read the judgement and I have to say I don’t know what I would have ruled in this case, but its nowhere as kooky as **Zoe[**makes it sound like. It was not a case of “upheld a company’s requirement that the women who worked for them could either be made infertile or lose their jobs”, the Company did not assign certain hazardous women who were of child bearing age unless they could show that they were infertile or underwent sterilisation a position which was certainly arguable if not necessarily inaccurate.
I will say this for Bork, at least the man who was nominated was certainly highly qualified for his position.
People need to remember that we have a whole legislature to pass laws if we think we need them. I’m not one for seeking to use the courts to bypass the legislative process. And just because the court rules that something can be done, doesn’t mean it necessarily thinks it’s a good thing to do it. It’s the legislature’s job to set policy. That’s what we elect them for.
Indeed. It’s amazing that he made it to 85 after spending the last quarter-century nursing his personal bitterness like a delicate tropical flower.
All in all, Bork left American jurisprudence a very valuable legacy: He made originalism look evil and ridiculous.
You’re right. That’s the least.
So was Roger Taney. “Qualified” ain’t enough.
Apparently not…