If Robert Bork had been confirmed for the SCOTUS

[Proud liberal 80]

The current court would be 5-4 in favor of the liberal wing. Obama would have replaced Bork. Yes Kennedy has been less radical than Bork would have been, but what major rulings would have been different if it was Bork instead of Kennedy.

[Persisted]

1. Jesus, pass that shit over. nt

[StevieM]

2. But in 1992 Robert Bork would have joined with 4 other justices to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

Clinton did not appoint Ruth Bader Guinsberg to replace Byron White until 1993.

And when Sandra Day O'Connor retired in 2005, and was replaced with Samuel Alito, it would have been overturned again.

Of course, one it had been overturned Anthony Kennedy probably would not have been so quick to reinstate it.

[Proud liberal 80]

3. Thanks!

Thanks for the input. I was just looking at raw numbers and couldn't think of a major case that Kennedy was the swing vote on for the liberal side. Didn't even consider a case that could have been brought up like abortion

[yardwork]

7. Obergefell, for one.

[dsc]

4. they often time their retirments

Bork almost certainly would have left the court under Bush just like Oconner did.

[Proud liberal 80]

5. I don't know

He seemed like a Scalia. Someone who was going to hold on until the end.

[yardwork]

6. Obama wasn't allowed to replace Scalia. The spot was vacant a year.

[Proud liberal 80]

8. When Bork died

The Democrats had the majority in the Senate.

[yardwork]

9. He might not have died then if he were on the SC.

[Demsrule86]

10. Bork was not qualified...and Obama was denied one justice why not two?