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Robert Bork Quotes
«I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.»
Author: Robert Bork
«Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.»
Author: Robert Bork
«The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.»
Author: Robert Bork
«When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.»
Author: Robert Bork
«Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history, and few people are willing to see its power broken. The difficulty with all proposals to respond to the Court when it behaves unconstitutionally is that they would create a power to destroy the Court's essential work as well.»
Author: Robert Bork
«Once the justices depart, as most of them have, from the original understanding of the principles of the Constitution, they lack any guidance other than their own attempts at moral philosophy, a task for which they have not even minimal skills. Yet when it rules in the name of the Constitution, whether it rules truly or not, the Court is the most powerful branch of government in domestic policy. The combination of absolute power, disdain for the historic Constitution, and philosophical incompetence is lethal.»
Author: Robert Bork
«[Roberts, President Bush's choice to replace the late William Rehnquist as chief justice of the Supreme Court, is well prepared for the post, Bork said. While praising Roberts for his] brilliant mind, ... never heard [Roberts] say anything about judicial philosophy.»
Author: Robert Bork
«Senators now demand that nominees state positions,»
Author: Robert Bork
«Only 1.5 Percent of Law Professors Sign Letter Opposing Roberts.»
Author: Robert Bork
«The conventional wisdom right now is that John Roberts will be confirmed just as the conventional wisdom in 1987 going into the hearings was that Robert Bork would be confirmed, ... You never know what's going to happen at a hearing. I think that's been demonstrated time and again.»
Author: Robert Bork