The Myth of Robert Bork
You know how Tom Freidman or Matt Miller submits the same column about how we need a "radical centrist" pain caucus third party daddy to save us about twice a.
Shorter Megan McArdle: "The Republicans can hardly be blamed for engaging in hostage-taking over the debt ceiling. After all, in 1987 a bipartisan majority rejected a Supreme Court nominee with.
Shame on Ian for accurately quoting Robert Bork's views; as Republicans have been reminding us for decades, doing this to The Greatest Legal Mind There Absolutely Ever Was is an unacceptable coarsening of the discourse. And, in fairness, at least he had the civility to...
Never let it be said that our comments section is not the site of unprecedented events! David Nieporent has actually attempted to cite erroneous claims in Ted Kennedy's famous Bork.
A commenter spotted this howler from Rosen's article:In every presidential election from 1988 to 2004, the court had a six-justice majority in favor of upholding Roe v. Wade.Is this why.
I have some minor quibbles with Jeffrey Rosen's defense of Joe Biden's handling of the Bork and Thomas confirmation hearings. While I agree with Rosen, for example, that the looking into Bork's video records was outrageous, it's also not reasonable to conflate that with Anita...