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Article: Liberals Should Welcome Judge Bork
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 6, 1987
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President Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme
Court has set off alarm bells among civil rights activists and
liberals. It is really difficult to understand why. For Judge Bork,
as a life-long exponent of judicial restraint, is quintessentially
dedicated to allowing them the maximum opportunity for convincing us
of the merits of their cause.
Judge Bork, like President Reagan, is a believer in giving
fidelity to the original intention of the Constitution. He views the
Constitution as a set of well-defined legal rules. There is a great
deal to be said for this.
The founders of our Republic were trying to make a government
out of the shambles of an ineffective ...