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A so-called originalist judge, Robert Bork, admitted he would violate his oath of office

April 23, 2012 by FauxCapitalist

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In 1987, during his Supreme Court Justice nomination hearings, Judge Robert Bork said (starting at 03:40):

“I cite to you the Legal Tender Cases. Scholarship suggests — these are extreme examples, admittedly — scholarship suggests that the Framers intended to prohibit paper money. Any judge who today thought he would go back to the original intent, really ought to be accompanied by a guardian rather than be sitting on a bench.“

Ironically, he was deemed to be too conservative, and a right-wing judicial activist by his top detractors like Senator Joe Biden and Senator Ted Kennedy.

This demonstrates that even so-called originalist and conservative judges don’t intend to uphold their oath of office when it’s politically difficult to do so, and why change needs to come externally.

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Joe Biden, judge, Legal Tender Cases, oath of office, originalist, Robert Bork, SCOTUS, Supreme Court Justice, Ted Kennedy, United States Supreme Court | 3 Comments

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  1. on April 23, 2012 at 4:11 pm ET

    Allow me to inquire: Just ~how external~ is your ‘external?’

    Regarding Bork himself, what raised my eyebrows and sounded the klaxons was his statement that there was no such thing as a ‘right to privacy.’

    For my money, we are born with every human natural right, and no government has any authority to trammel upon those rights without a good solid, and valid reason, being predicate to stopping an imminent danger or threat to someone else’s live, liberty, and/or property.


    • on April 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm FauxCapitalist

      What do you mean by how external is my external in the context of my post?

      As for Bork, did he say no such thing as a right to privacy, or no constitutional right to privacy?


  2. on April 23, 2012 at 12:15 pm Anthony Migchels

    Indeed, the idea that Judges will get us out of this hole is just silly.



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