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...personally have been affected by (the Holocaust)," Ruth Bork, president of One Generation After, said yesterday. "Our parents in many cases have been negatively physically affected by their experiences in the war years," she added...
...Bork said Fuhrmann mentioned the increased difficulty in obtaining witnesses to war crimes so long after the war and the large number of people who have already been tried as reasons for allowing the statute...
...However, Bork said many people have not yet been tried. "People should be brought to trial to show that a person doesn't undertake that kind of effort (participation in war crimes) without facing consequences," she added...
...long ago the Supreme Court allowed five George Washington University law students to oppose a railroad-rate surcharge. Why? Because, the students argued, the surcharge would increase the cost of recyclable goods and thus mean more beer cans littering public parks. (They lost.) Conservatives like Yale Law Professor Robert Bork, who was U.S. Solicitor General during the Nixon Administration, understandably worry that "democratic government gets pushed back and back, as judicial government takes over...
Thus judicial activism is in large part the product of legislative inaction. Says Yale's Bork: "Rather than making the tough choices, legislatures will frequently write a vague law, and pass [the hard decisions] off on the courts." A phenomenally litigious society also fuels judicial power; judges, after all, cannot make law without lawsuits. Tocqueville observed more than a century ago that there is "hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." With the growth of Government, the power of the judiciary has naturally expanded. Thus public-interest...