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...without one. The collected wisdom has had it that they were wrong--that the initial lack of a bill of rights was the Founder's one big mistake. Yet no one has done more to challenge this position and vindicate Madison and Hamilton than Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork...
...SAID that? 'Twasn't Robert Bork. It was, however, his Grand Inquisitor, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. Every day heaps new embarrassments upon the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and his presidential campaign is in trouble. Gary Hart may have fudged his birth date and shortened his name. But though Biden has yet to be caught with his pants down, his shortcomings are now no less exposed than those of his former Senate colleague...
Strapped with such ideological baggage, Bork now must claim that as a Supreme Court justice he would at times feel bound to uphold decisions he criticized as an academic. Then again, his equivocations last week under the klieg lights could simply be the last refuge of a jurisprudential scoundrel seeking confirmation before a largely hostile Senate...
Senators have a duty to ensure that Bork does not have a chance to continue playing his self-absorbed game with the Constitution for him is like a 200-year old Rubik's cube. After tortured reasoning, the game's self-proclaimed master manages to find a way to come to the same end point. Bork is more than a conservative activist. He's a radical puzzle-solver...
Examples span settings sublime and ridiculous. The sublime: Biden simply was unimpressive in his questioning of Bork. He rarely completed sentences, and continually flashed cheesy smiles as he asked the judge to repeat himself over and over "just so I can get this straight." The ridiculous: "I think I have a much higher IQ than you do," he snapped to someone named Frank at a New Hampshire event last year...