Robert Bork, who died Wednesday, was an unrepentant reactionary who was on the wrong side of every major legal controversy of the twentieth century. The fifty-eight senators who voted against Bork for confirmation to the Supreme Court in 1987 honored themselves, and the Constitution. In the subsequent quarter-century, Bork devoted himself to proving that his critics were right about him all along.
Toobin goes on to accuse Bork of liking poll taxes and thinking that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a horrible law. (Bork didn't like the law at the time but he later changed his mind; meanwhile Ron Paul never has, but I digress.) Now when someone dies it's one thing to be fair and not simply create a whitewashed version of their life. In my own eulogy of Bork, I was critical of his rejection of a natural law based jurisprudence. But Toobin's write-up is truly on an entirely different level. I can't imagine what he would say if a conservative wrote up something akin to his piece if a liberal justice on the Court were to suddenly pass away. The MSM would be again bringing up that old standby, civility, that has strangely disappeared from the vocabularies of the political class.
Toobin, a liberal who tends to view anything with which he disagrees like a scientists studying some strange organism in a Petri dish, has hit a new low even for him. If anything could be considered libelous today it is this "piece." I would say that Toobin should be ashamed of himself but that would require him to have a conscience.
(If you are interested in reading a full take down of Toobin's "piece," please read this long post.)
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