Robert Bork Quotes
… the Democratic Party in robes.
Describing the Catholic Bishops of the United States:
Robert Bork, U. S. Solicitor General, Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals, Washington DC, Slouching Toward Gomorra, 1996
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Later in his career the priest ignored this earlier admonition and campaigned virulently against Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal and even helped found a political party. The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
Often called Blackshirts. He is one of the few politicians in the world who saw Fascists and Nazis in the middle of the political spectrum.
After JFK’s assassination, many of his appointees who were liberal Democrats, were concerned that LBJ was a Southern conservative and might not want to serve in a conservative administration. Johnson satisfied Heller and all of the other Kennedy appointees who he asked to stay on. Actually, Johnson was more liberal than JFK, and proved it during his Presidency.
Holman is commenting on the Harvey Weinstein scandal in which he is accused of multiple sexual assaults over 30 or more years and the lack of liberal and progressive outrage and passive acceptance of his behavior by large circles of people who knew.
Robert Heron Bork was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United States from 1973 to 1977. A professor at Yale Law School by occupation, he later served as a judge on the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the U.S. Senate rejected his nomination.
