Shorter Col. Mustard: "I believe I'm the millionth person to quote Ted Kennedy's Bork speech as if it was ipso facto beyond the pale, without actually noting anything in it that was inaccurate." What a justice who lost an up-or-down vote has to do with...
the bork myth
Was Biden talking about how he came to believe that the Senate should take the philosophy of the president's judicial appointments into account. Helping to torpedo Bork was indeed one.
I actually agree with two points that Ross Douthat makes here. First, I think that there's a tendency to assume that Roe's popular support made its upholding inevitable, but this.