Robert Bork
Borking Around
Some writers get the stories they deserve. Hunter Thompson got the Angels. Tom Wolfe got the Pranksters. Sy Hersh got My Lai. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein got Watergate. Robert Caro got Moses and LBJ. Kate Boo got Annawadi. I got the Bork tapes. READ MORE >>
We're Still Paying the Price for the Borking of Robert Bork
Constitution Avenue
Bork-Backing, Activist-Hating Legal Expert: Obamacare Is OK
If you haven't already, please read what Henry Paul Monaghan has to say about the lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act. Monaghan is the Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia. He is also a conservative, in the old school, legal sense of the word. READ MORE >>
Life Sentences
Daily Deadline: Romney's Blast from the Past
[with contributions from Matthew O'Brien and Darius Tahir] Robert Bork is not a sitting justice on the Supreme Court. And there is a very good reason for that. During his lengthy career as a legal scholar, he was an outspoken critic of modern constitutional interpretation – arguing, among other things, that the Civil Rights Act was coercive and that Griswold v. Connecticut, the decision that established a right to privacy, had no legitimate basis. READ MORE >>
Obama’s Law
Going Rogue
Rights, Words, and Laws
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