Senate Judiciary Committee Votes No on Judge Bork
The rejection of Judge Robert Bork by the Senate Judiciary Committee is the best possible outcome for an ill-advised nomination. Bork stands for the proposition that the state takes primacy over the individual to the extent that it may invade rights that the framers considered inalienable. The state itself exists to ensure the continued well-being of the megalithic industries whose power perpetuates the military-industrial chokehold on this country.
In more outspoken times, Bork’s views would accurately be labeled as fascist.
It would be hypocritical and even dangerous to deny that the process of confirming a Supreme Court justice, particularly one so blatantly chosen to guarantee an afterlife to our monarch President, is political. This is as it should be: Contrary to Reagan’s suggestion, the Senate does not exist to rubber stamp any candidate he cares to nominate.
Finally, it is “candidate Bork” who has himself politicized the process, glad-handing senators and mugging for the cameras at every photo opportunity.
Some Republican senators have threatened that the chickens will come home to roost upon rejection of Bork. Quite right! But these chickens were hatched in California by Republicans.
PETER M. KUNSTLER
Los Angeles
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