1)Everything Kennedy said about Bork was true and the bipartisan majority was right to reject him. 2)Bork being confirmed would have done absolutely nothing to forestall the rise of Trump. The two most hackish pro-Trump justices on the Supreme Court were nominated by the "normal" Republicans!
The fact that Reagan couldn't find someone who wanted to overrule Roe AND hadn't written an op-ed asserting that the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional, a law review article asserting that the First Amendment doesn't protect literature, etc. is not in fact the fault of the Democratic Party
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And aided Nixon's Watergate cover-up after being offered a Supreme Court seat for doing so
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Republicans for 40 years: "we had no choice but to go fash because 58 senators voted against normal, mainstream, unobjectionable conservative Robert Bork" Robert Bork:
