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Fmr. SCOTUS Nominee Robert Bork: 'Wise Latina' Remark Is Immediate Disqualifier
Rachel Slajda | July 16, 2009, 2:30PM
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Rejected Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork doesn't believe for a second that Sonia Sotomayor is committed to the "fidelity of the law."
"I don't take Sotomayor's protestations that she's entirely governed by law seriously," Bork said in an interview with Newsmax. "I think the statements she's made and the rulings she's made show that she's not governed entirely by law."
He also agreed with the interviewer that her comment about wise Latinas should have immediately disqualified her from the bench.
She has a "preference for some minorities over the majority," he said.
Bork, who was nominated by Ronald Reagan, also lashed out at the way Democrats conduct confirmation hearings.
"It's quite true that the Democrats are willing to engage in furious attacks, often without any basis in fact, and Republicans are not," he said.
"I don't know if that's a Republican virtue or Republican timidity. But I think the Republicans are either going to have to persuade the Democrats to quit that approach to confirmations, or take up the same kind of tactics themselves, which would be too bad."
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worthlesscitizen
July 16, 2009 2:40 PM
Bob who? Oh, that's right, "rejected Supreme Court nominee." Another inhabitant of those hallowed halls of the non-newsworthy.
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kiva
July 16, 2009 2:50 PM
well, guess *he's* still bitter...
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dswx
July 16, 2009 2:51 PM
The fact that Bork cites the "wise Latina" comment completely out of its full context is a classic example of why he should never be near a court room. He did not read the text. It was clearly explain (again) yesterday by Sotomayor. But he just went with what other right wing lugnuts have told him she said. Bork is nothing more than an intellectually lazy blowhard. And the fact that Newsmax classified him as one of the greatest legal minds speaks volumes about how completely clueless and worthless rubbish Newsmax is. The country is so much the better without having Bork on the SCOTUS.
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timbale
July 16, 2009 2:54 PM
Another bitter, out of touch Republican.
BTW, your 15 minutes was up a long time ago.
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fkaZk0sm0
July 16, 2009 2:55 PM
this just in from the alternate universe...
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kiva
July 16, 2009 3:00 PM
wow, I made the above comment based on the misleading TPM headline. If you watch the interview, he's actually pretty reasonable.
The interviewer states, "some would argue....."...
straight out of the FOX playbook
TPM: WTH is with the headline here? It's clearly not what he said.
the interviewer is outclassed by like 50 IQ points. Who the hell is this guy? What a tool. Bork did agree with his democrats are meaner than repugs thing. what a silly interview.
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commie atheist
July 16, 2009 3:02 PM
"Ashley Martella!?!" Is that guy for real? I think I've seen him selling Ginsu knives on late-night TV.
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biff diggerence
July 16, 2009 3:08 PM
"I think the statements she's made and the rulings she's made show that she's not governed entirely by law."
Firing Cox and Ruckelshaus didn't show that either, asshole.
Man, you could lose a dozen golf balls in those pair of jowls.
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paulw
July 16, 2009 3:12 PM
Isn't Bork the one suing the Yale Club for a million bucks because he fell trying to climb up to a podium?
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ctal
July 16, 2009 4:19 PM
haha, qq more bork noob $$
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BigBadBama
July 16, 2009 5:08 PM
At least he got rid of that terrible beard.
This interview is a riot. Why don't they just go whole hog and have the talking heads boxes wave like the flag?
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AMendoza
July 16, 2009 9:35 PM
Even prior to his disasterous nomination fight, Bork has always acted as if he were entitled to a SCOTUS seat.
When this clip started playing I thought it was something from the Onion until a dried up Bork showed up on screen sans thin, pubic-esque beard on his chin.
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