[Editor's Note: In this interview with CNSNews in 2009, Judge Robert Bork warned that just "one judge"--Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy--effectively had the power to decide "the moral life of the nation.” Bork made the assertion after warning: "But we are going to see in the near future a terrible conflict between claimed rights of homosexuals and religious freedom. You are going to get Catholic hospitals that are going to be required as a matter of law to perform abortions. You are going to get Catholic or other groups’ relief services that are going to be required to allow adoption of a child by homosexual couples. We are going to have a real conflict that goes right to the heart of the society.”]
(CNSNews) - “Now, it’s a funny situation in which the moral life of a nation is in effect decided by one judge, because you have four solid liberal votes, four solid originalist votes, and one vote you can’t predict too accurately in advance,” said Judge Robert Bork, reflecting on the balance of the U.S. Supreme Court, in an interview with CNSNews.com.
Bork was pondering what the outcome might be if the court at some future point were to answer the question of whether the government has the constitutional authority to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions.
It is Justice Anthony Kennedy whom Bork believes holds the court’s deciding vote on such issues.
The judge spoke with CNSNews Editor in Chief Terry Jeffrey in a videotaped interview Jan. 8, 2009. Here is a transcript of the conversation.
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4 comments:
He had it exactly right. The left had to "Bork" him at all costs.
I never understood why the Supreme Court judges were not elected by the people to begin with. Remember that Obama has appointed 2 liberal females to the court.
4 solid orginalist votes? think again bork! only three and you got to swing votes witch you never know how they are going to swing, kennedy and roberts!
The supreme court is a joke and no longer reviews laws. They are activist judges just like all the rest who are trying to use the power of the government at gun point to change the country!
"I never understood why the Supreme Court judges were not elected by the people to begin with"
Because that's the way the Founding Fathers wrote it in the Constitution. A co-equal branch of government, forming and important part of the checks-and-balances form of federal government that gets its own Article, just like the Executive branch (President) and the Legislative branch (Congress).
For a group of people who say Pres. Obama doesn't uphold the Constitution, y'all seem to be pretty quick to want to completely gut it.
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