Robert Bork for USSC. Seriously, Mitt?

[Canuckistanian]

I had NO IDEA that Bork ruled this way. The company enforced a "fetal protection policy" in order to avoid hiring women of child-bearing years. NO such policy was enforced for men.

The back story:
http://www.wvup.edu/rphillips/what_really_happened.htm

http://www.laprogressive.com/romney-robert-bork/

[Ilsa]

1. Bork is 85 years old and belongs in the 14th century.

Naturally, Mitt identifies with him.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Really, 85 years old?

Good then.

I won't mourn his passing.

[Ilsa]

15. I read on wiki that he was born in 1927. nt

[niyad]

2. and the woman-hating continues apace

[struggle4progress]

3. It's red meat to the Reaganites, cuz we gob-smecked em good back when St Ronnie the Dimwit

tried to put Bork on SCOTUS

"Bork is a Cox-sacker"

[regnaD kciN]

5. He's also written...

...that First Amendment protections only apply to "explicitly political" speech (if it isn't explicitly political, the government can censor it) and, even then, only to political speech that isn't a "threat" to the country (any guess who gets to decide?).

[hifiguy]

8. He also once wrote that the First Amendment applies to

nothing but the printed word. No 1st Amendment for movies, TV, radio, or, presumably, the intertubes.

[hrmjustin]

6. Bork is evil!!!

[hifiguy]

7. That evil old Cox-sacker

(he fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre during Watergate, just to make myself clear) is more ancient than dirt and will not be going onto the SCOTUS. There are plenty of much younger judges who are just as evil to their core.

Though Bork is one brutally evil bastard.

[jsr]

9. I thought the motherfucker was dead

[hifiguy]

10. Gee, Ted was 100% right.

For the zillionth time.

[Jennicut]

12. Bork was defeated by Teddy and Joe Biden when he was up for the Supreme Court nomination.

They took him apart on the right to privacy and it worked. Convinced enough Repubs on the Judiciary Committee to vote against Bork.
One of the best things Biden ever did.

[lastlib]

16. "Not hardly"

Only from the neck up.

[MrScorpio]

11. Three words: Saturday Night Massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre

[handsomebwonderful]

13. .

Saturday Night Live. http://snltranscripts.jt.org/87/87areagan.phtml

[TheKentuckian]

14. The Bork nomination alone should have triggered a 20 year ban on electing Republicans

to jack apple shit in America but not even a hiccup and Weird WilLIARd should be made to own each and ever ruling for saying such a stupid thing but that probably won't happen either.