Word: bork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years later, Ronald Reagan named him to the prestigious D.C. Federal Appeals Court, a traditional waiting room for Supreme Court nominees, which was the position Starr wanted. During six years on the appeals court, Starr was on the more moderate side of a conservative voting bloc that included Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia at its rightward end. He got a reputation as a consensus builder, ruling against affirmative action and busing but strongly supporting the First Amendment, notably in a high-profile decision favoring the Washington Post when it was sued for libel by Mobil chairman William P. Tavoulareas...
...Roman Catholic churches denounced NOW for its attack on the Promise Keepers and decried the negative impact of what they described as "radical feminism" on church and society. "We believe that the feminist fixation on power has sadly missed the point of the present cultural situation," said Mary Ellen Bork, the wife of the failed Supreme Court nominee and a lecturer on Catholic life. "In our view, power is not the goal in life." Added Pat Funderburk Ware, an African-American expert on preventing teenage pregnancy and HIV infection: "So many white women...are so co-opted by the feminist...
...revolution that lost its focus in recent years. So they have been not so quietly pursuing a historic change in the ambiguous "advise and consent" role the Constitution gives the Senate in the selection of federal judges. The successful assault by Democrats on Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court helped open the way for what has become a more partisan and ideological examination of all judicial nominees...
...recent book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, Judge Robert Bork writes, "Contrary to the plan of the American government, the Supreme Court has usurped the powers of the people and their elected representatives." As a solution, he proposes "a constitutional amendment making any federal or state court decision subject to being overruled by a majority vote of each house of Congress." True, Judge Bork does tend to be one of those who looks left and sees Attila, but his book is endorsed on the back cover by such conventionally "mainstream" conservatives as Bill Bennett and Senator Chuck Grassley...
...Bork's proposal is a frightening one, one that would mean the end of democracy in America. If the majority were given the power to interpret the Constitution, which is what this proposal amounts to, the only check on the people's power to oppress the minority would be eliminated. The justices and their judgments would be rendered impotent. The justices would be mere mouthpieces. We would do well to remember Madison's admonition in Federalist No. 47: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many...may justly...