i don't get what the big chimpout over him was but then the Senate confirmed Scalia with barely a whisper despite him having probably 90% identical beliefs to Bork
>>17271779Scalia just looked like a normal lawyer while Bork was a weird bug-eyed autismo that gave people the ick.
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>"The Bork Court"no. just no
>>17271779Watch the Bork confirmation hearings btw if you want to see what a "nice" guy Joe Biden always was.
He was targeted by Jews for some reason, the Jewish media group People for the American Way were behind most of the negative ads.
>>17273245kek
>>17273419It wasn't so much Bork per se but they were surly because there were no Jews on the USSC then nor had there been since the '60s. On top of that Reagan had earlier nominated a Jewish judge named Douglas Ginzberg for the USSC but that also fell through when he admitted to marijuana use. So Jewish groups were, idk, just butthurt.
>>17273458who's fault was that?>only one Democrat president 1969 to 92>and he didn't get to appoint any USSC justices>most Jews are Democrats (all Jewish USSC justices there have been were Democrat appointees) so there was clearly very little chance one was going to get on the bench when it was entirely Republican presidents appointing them
>>17273458When Abe Fortas stepped down in '69 that was it for Jewish justices until RBG 24 years later. It was also the first time since 1914 there had not been any on the bench and some Jewish groups felt entitled and butthurt. Nixon angrily countered "There is no 'black' or 'Jewish' seat on the Supreme Court."
yeah the ads>Robert Bork's America is a dark place where the teaching of evolution will be banned in schools, blacks will be put back in chains, women will be forced into back alley abortions, all gays will be burned at the stake.
>a midget named Borkno chance
>>17273532leftist ads always make these guys seem way more based than they actually are
He destroyed those clowns.Also because he looked like a confederate general and came off a bit autistic. He would prob rule like Scalia in most cases, Thomas is more hardcore.
>>17275443>He destroyed those clownsinc. one Senator Joe Biden (D, Delaware)
i agree fundamentally that Bork just looked weird and aspie. sometimes looks do matter.
