Supreme Revenge: Robert Bork, Jr. Interview

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Supreme Revenge: Robert Bork, Jr. Interview

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Robert Bork, Junior is the son of Judge Robert H. Bork, the failed Supreme Court nominee under Ronald Reagan.
Watch this full candid interview with Bork that was conducted with FRONTLINE during the making of the May 2019 documentary "Supreme Revenge."
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@elamarjordan Жыл бұрын

I remember how chilling it was for me to listen throughout the whole disgraceful 'event', and what a loud sigh of relief burst out of my mouth eventually.

@guodade2239 3 жыл бұрын

Robert Bork junior’s assessment and description of his father’s failed nomination is very good and enjoyable to listen to. The details of Biden and Leahy are worth the price of watching.

@etiennescarbinski7890 4 жыл бұрын

Garland was sweet revenge for Bork for the other side. Love that Biden and Lahey were still alive to see it.

@annowens5019 4 жыл бұрын

Wake up. Garland/Bork were not Revenge. They were USED as "Returns On Investment" A "Dividend or Pay Off" To Corporate Interest and the McConnell Wealthy .01 Percent (BIG) Campaign Donors. Garland Merritt was just 'road kill' on Mitch McConnell's road to Remaking the Supreme Court into a 'CONSERVATIVE Majority' Bench. WHY would McConnell DEMAND a conservative majority bench and not a moderate bench? To Support McConnell's/Koch brothers Supreme Agenda. Example: United Citizens vs Federal Election Commission [Unlimited Corporate Money Poured Into Elections] Deregulation; Gerrymandering, or Challenges to Favorable Tax Bills and futher Enrichment of the Wealthy and their Addendum of Control and Power.

@annowens5019 4 жыл бұрын

@coffeeinthemorning ... .... It Is Your Choice To be Confused. And isn't that your intention? (GOGGLE McConnell's Admission After "McConnell Buzzed Through" Kavanaugh Seating On The Bench Of The Supreme Court Of The United States.). Or Mitch McConnell's Kavanaugh Calculation: Vox 10/03/2018

@annowens5019 4 жыл бұрын

Projection, Exaggeration And Lies? Typical Scripted, McConnell Controlled GOP Response. You Are Not Required To Read My Comment, NOR Are You Required To RESPOND. Ludicrous.

@21972012145525 3 жыл бұрын

It’s quite horrible actually. The two people who should’ve gotten the role, didn’t. It was especially sad in Merrick Garland’s case, because they didn’t even allow the hearings

@thtguyethan96 3 жыл бұрын

@@annowens5019 I'll say this both parties do the same thing. It's not just one sided

@elliotsmith9930 4 жыл бұрын

I’m not trying to lean either way, but knowing that someone’s working overtime to make money for their family member’s cancer and trying to spin that seems reprehensible. There’s a lot of things that are dirty but understandable; cancer & minors should not fall in that category.

@21972012145525 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, so true. It was also especially sad of the treatment of Merrick Garland. Really hate these politicians

@Dougie1969 3 жыл бұрын

@@21972012145525 Treatment of Merrick Garland ??? Nobody treated him bad , at all !! Kavanaugh on the other hand, was treated HORRIBLE

@eileenross5261 3 жыл бұрын

Merrick Garland was never smeared!! He never even sat before the committee. Yes McConnell used his position to keep the nomination from going forward but he never would have been voted in, the Senate was Republican majority. Bork was crucified especially by Senator Kennedy.... a man with such high moral character 15 years before he got so drunk while driving his car with Mary Jo Kopechne he drove off the bridge into a lake, left the young woman in the car at the bottom of the lake and did not did go get help or call the police for 24 hours.

@21972012145525 3 жыл бұрын

@coffeeinthemorning to not even hold hearings when you have committed your life to your profession as a civil servant is the worst form of cold shoulder and ghosting! The fact that there WAS NOTHING TO SMEAR is exactly what McConnell was scared of and didn’t even hold hearings. COWARD!

@21972012145525 3 жыл бұрын

@coffeeinthemorning I never used the word smear. I specifically stated The SAD TREATMENT OF MERRICK GARLAND

@evanfinch4987 Жыл бұрын

The intellectual feast statement is one of the reasons I like the guy.

@kevini4295 Жыл бұрын

Robert Bork senior did not deserve to even be nominated for SCOTUS. Back when the Senate actually did it's job. Bork lost all credibility and any shred of ethics when I did Nixon's bidding during the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon promised him a seat on SCOTUS for that. Nixon didn't get to, so Reagan had to fulfill that "promise".

@elderherrera2238 3 жыл бұрын

This political hit job would eventually would be described as "borking". I was 14 then. This hit job would be my call to conservatism.

@wilburkimble7168 Жыл бұрын

Can we assume, then, that you were called to liberalism when McConnell held up Obama's nomination? Or how about then turning around and rushing through Barrett under the same conditions?

@kevinbrown4073 2 жыл бұрын

Took another 35 years but we redeemed judge bork

@kurtrambus2728 2 жыл бұрын

By bringing a fascist supreme court.

@kevinbrown4073 2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtrambus2728 more whine with your cheese

@Odin31b Жыл бұрын

We?

@evanfinch4987 Жыл бұрын

yeah who is we

@Calico_Jim 6 ай бұрын

@@kurtrambus2728cry harder ya little bitch

@SurvivalWorks-ji9wc 10 ай бұрын

Oh look. Nobody us. We deal with Good Food.

@peteremwells 5 жыл бұрын

He did not mention Merrick Garland once.

@blue_diamond_gem 5 жыл бұрын

Elections have consequences.

@Xxwill55xX 5 жыл бұрын

President Obama was a lame-duck President who nominated Garlandalmost 6 months before the 2016 election.... how is it not allowed to let the next president (who the majority of people thought would be Clinton) decide the Nominee

@theglowingbrownie5124 4 жыл бұрын

@philbyification I know. I didn't understand why Garland had to be mentioned.

@annowens5019 4 жыл бұрын

@@blue_diamond_gem ...Elections have consequences..." Yes They Do. And The "Placement" Of an Inept, Six time BANKRUPT and Failed Businessesman should not be one (DEUTSCHE Bank]. Particularly, when the result is an Individual who LOST the Election by Nearly Three Million Ballots.

@JerryDLTN 4 жыл бұрын

@@annowens5019 "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, (bankruptcy) because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring (running multiple large businesses) greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."