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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGrassley: Senate can now "atone" for its treatment of Robert Bork by confirming Kavanaugh
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Did Grassley really just say the Senate can now "atone" for its treatment of Robert Bork? Well....Merrick Garland, Merrick Garland, Merrick Garland.
7:56 AM - 4 Sep 2018
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Did Grassley really just say the Senate can now "atone" for its treatment of Robert Bork? Well....Merrick Garland, Merrick Garland, Merrick Garland.
7:56 AM - 4 Sep 2018
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Grassley: Senate can now "atone" for its treatment of Robert Bork by confirming Kavanaugh (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Sep 2018
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Bork did Nixon's bidding in the Saturday Night Massacre. Was promised a SCotUS seat. Justice Kennedy
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2018
#6
Atone for Bork?????...seems to me if the senate never got it right before..they certainly
asiliveandbreathe
Sep 2018
#9
spanone
(135,880 posts)1. No Shit, David.
handmade34
(22,758 posts)2. ....
Turbineguy
(37,369 posts)3. Bork
Remind me?
Oh yes, the guy who wanted to halt the Watergate Inquiry.
procon
(15,805 posts)4. WTF... is Grassley taking a cheapshot at women by promoting Kavanaugh
and his anti women's rights views in retaliation for the defeat of a creep like Bork?
vlyons
(10,252 posts)5. yeah and atone for how mean we were to Thomas too
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)6. Bork did Nixon's bidding in the Saturday Night Massacre. Was promised a SCotUS seat. Justice Kennedy
Justice Kennedy was schmoozed off Court with the promise that Kavanaugh would get it. Kavanaugh is compromised and has a conflict of interest regarding anything to do with tRump.
On October 20, 1973, Solicitor General Bork was instrumental in the 'Saturday Night Massacre' when U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Richardson's top deputy, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus also considered the order "fundamentally wrong"[15] and resigned, making Bork Acting Attorney General. When Nixon reiterated his order, Bork complied and fired Cox. In his posthumously published memoirs, Bork claimed Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court if he carried out the order[16], though Bork didn't take the offer seriously as he believed that Watergate had left Nixon too politically compromised to appoint another justice. Bork claimed he carried out the order under pressure from Nixon's attorneys and intended to resign immediately afterwards, but was convinced by Richardson and Ruckelshaus to stay on for the good of the Justice Department.[16] Bork remained Acting Attorney General until the appointment of William B. Saxbe on January 4, 1974.[17] Nixon would never get the chance to carry out his promise to Bork, as the next Supreme Court vacancy came after Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford assumed the presidency, with Ford instead nominating John Paul Stevens.
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)7. He's experiencing flashbacks and amnesia simultaneously.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)8. Bork! Him again? Cornyn is upset about the "rules" be abused.
Honestly, this republican party is the most disgusting group ever assembled.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)9. Atone for Bork?????...seems to me if the senate never got it right before..they certainly
got it right re Bork!!!!! Dem senators should ask the questions that they know are in the docs being withheld..screw the trumpistas....enough - sink this Kavanaugh -
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)10. The Saturday Night Massacre was 45 years ago
It produced the charming slogan "Bork is a Cox sacker" that sank Bork's nomination to SCOTUS more than 30 years ago
He was a sore loser and promptly quit the judgeship he held
But he's been dead the better part of a decade now