(09-19-2020, 06:50 PM)copycat Wrote:

(09-19-2020, 05:48 PM)mikesez Wrote: I'm not sure what you mean.
Bork was very influential on guys like Scalia and Thomas though he never served.

Don’t play coy.  Robert Bork was more than qualified to serve as a SCJ.  The democrats instead of approving a qualified nominee decided to play politics and forced Reagan to withdraw the nomination.  That right there was the first shot fired in politicizing the Supreme Court.  The entire process has just gotten nastier with each passing nominee.

I wasn't alive for it.  From what I can read about it, I agree that Bork's nomination was probably the most disagreeable incident between the president and the senate in living memory at that time. But it seems to me, that the president and the leaders of the Senate were have consulted privately to prevent something like a bork incident from happening, both in the years before and the years after.
And I have to disagree that he was qualified to be on the supreme Court. he was the guy who said that Nixon could stop the Watergate investigation if he wanted to.

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