From the Mind of Bork
In the Agora posted a partial transcript of an interview of Robert Bork regarding Sandy O’Connor…great reading to familiarize yourself with the issues.
We have to press the point continually: a judge’s personal views on a given issue are irrelevant. I don’t personally care, for instance, what a judge thinks about abortion, because it doesn’t matter. What does matter is simply this: how does he/she view the Constitution? Bork is right regarding Sandy O’Connor and Justice Kennedy: they aren’t “moderates”; they’re rather mediocrities without clear commitment to the Constitution. So much of the talk you’ll hear about this nomination will be so much subterfuge and hooey, and I’ll even give the press the benefit of the doubt on it: I honestly think that a lot of the talk with be from ignorance, rather than from willfully misstating/shading the truth. We’ve become so used to politics obfuscating the issues surrounding the judiciary that we can’t think of things any other way.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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