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After the bruising battles that led to the rejection of Robert Bork and the unexpected withdrawal of Douglas Ginsburg, few liberals or conservatives were in any mood for another knockdown brawl. And, at least at first glance, one seems unlikely. No one could find anything in either Kennedy's Norman Rockwell personal background or his twelve-year record on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento that would prevent him from being confirmed as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice, and potentially a long-serving one. At 51, Kennedy is young enough to be shaping court decisions well...
...rest on Higginson Snotbottom's numinously scriptatory editorial effusion, "Why Daily Pensters Don't Wear Clothes." I fear they rested but a moment, a soi-disant hermeneutic flicker in my day, since at the time I was on the ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte '41, playing a gripping game of trans-Atlantic telephone chess (on the other line) with dear Margaret Thatcher, and piloting...
When Robert Bork testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this September, he argued that the Constitution guaranteed no right to privacy. Any reading which found such a right inevitably would be far too open-ended and expansive. After all, he said, where does this alleged right to privacy end? Does it entitle you to use cocaine in private...
...Senate wisely rejected Bork and his cramped view of the rights protected from intrusions of the majority. Yet in losing the battle, Bork may have won the war. His successor's withdrawl represents a reaction against the increasing scope of private rights and answers Bork's last query with a resounding...
...right to privacy which Americans vindicated a month ago must not be chiseled away. Now that we have rejected Bork, we must now reject Borkism in all its manifestations. Unless things change radically, Ginsburg's defeat may very well signal the vindication of Bork's principles...