Word: bork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these experts, would set a dangerous precedent. It would undermine the Judiciary's capacity to protect the rights of individuals from the whims of the majority. Even conservative scholars are upset by this attempt to get around Roe vs. Wade. Says Nixon's Solicitor General, Robert Bork, one who strongly disagrees with the Roe vs. Wade decision: "If the Human Life Statute becomes law, you've got a constitutional crisis. In the guise of gesticulating facts, it would be changing the court's constitutional role." Says Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe: "If Congress can do this...
...doesn't impair the Supreme Court's ability to review Congress. It's just that this time around, they'll have to take into account the legislative determination. They can decide to follow it or not, but they have to give it due respect." Responds Bork: "The court won't let Congress make a determination of what the facts are, when the facts are the crucial facts for constitutional purposes. I think the court will gather itself to strike this law down...
...there's a knock on the door, which reminds parents of a traumatic experience in the war when the Nazis came, this child doesn't react with anxiety but in a more realistic way-he checks to see who's at the door." Adds Ruth Kukiela Bork, president of One Generation After, a service organization for the children of survivors: "The offspring's behavior will depend to a great extent on how the parents managed to cope...