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...prepared text of that speech Vanderpoolsaid, "although it is impossible not to despair atthe loss of a loved one, hopefully wheneverstudents see this tree, they can smile inside andcelebrate the many happy remembrances he gave us.The tree could perhaps allow us to pause andcelebrate life's memories which make it sobeautiful...
According to Judge Bork and the administration which nominated him, judges should heed the original intent of the Founders of the Constitution and should "find" rather than "make" law. Rights not specifically enumerated in the text of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, they argue, were not intended by the Founders and therefore do not exist; only the rights they mentioned really count. A good judge, consequently, must resist the temptation to create new ones...
...with my lectures, the readings for my course provided a balanced mix of views from both American and Caribbean scholars with the overwhelming emphasis being on liberal to centrist academic writings. Ironically, the most important required text was by Eric Williams, the late, conservative Prime Minister of Trinidad, supplemented by an historical work by V.S. Nainaul, a political reactionary who is anathema to the Caribbean left. Only one of the required works was by a socialist, an English scholar who bent over backward to be fair...
Bork's ire is most provoked by the Supreme Court's famous decision over the past 20 years protecting what it deemed invasions of rights to privacy fundamental to, though not explicit in, the text of the Constitution. The anticontraceptive law challenged in Griswold v. Connecticut may have been "nutty," as Bork says. Worse, still, was Justice William O. Douglas' opinion in the case, which held that the statute violated individual rights that "emanated" from "penumbras" of the Constitution...
...terrible student in law school, though his performace there is not exactly an encouraging barometer of his intellect. (He finished 76th in a class of 85.) It's not even that he somehow failed to cite a law review article from which he copied five pages of text word-for-word in a paper he wrote in his first year in law school. Taken in isolation, these are mere peccadillos. What is disturbing is how insecure he clearly feels about his brainpower...