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...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...
...bork is to attack a public figure systematically (thus immortalized is the hapless Judge Robert Bork). Calculus is not only a field of mathematics but also an all-purpose reckoning ("the calculus of political appeal"). To incentivize is to encourage. The inner child is the infantile wretch that lurks within the adult psyche. Outercourse is sex without penetration. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake-up call, alas, refuse...
...lobby Friday night, the best and the brightest of the new revolution, fatigued and untanned, still in suits rumpled from the Beltway fray. Here at the entrance to Miami's Doral Golf Resort and Spa was David Horowitz, leftist turned conservative author. Behind him strode movement martyr Judge Robert Bork, so foully denied a Supreme Court seat. And here was Richard Viguerie, political direct-mail pioneer and prodigal son. For the preceding few years on New Year's, Viguerie had partied with the enemy, surrounded by moderates and liberals in Hilton Head, South Carolina, at a retreat known as Renaissance...
...kept a low profile--in part to protect her privacy and in part because, as she would later admit, the famous pregnancy had actually resulted from romance, not rape. But even after going public in 1989 to help fight the Supreme Court nomination of anti-Roe judge Robert Bork, she felt ill-matched with her supposed sisters, who managed to throw a 20th anniversary party for Roe v. Wade in Washington two years ago without inviting her. "I never fit in that well with the pro-choice people," she says, in her northeast Dallas home."I shoot from...