Robert Bork

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• SOURCE: Democracy
  9/15/2022
  

  Economics is Power, not Math: Why the Dems Should Attack Monopoly

  by Barry C. Lynn

  Until the Reagan Revolution, American politics reflected the understanding that concentrated economic power was corrosive to democracy. Today, the Democrats need to revive that story as a political argument. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-29-18
  

  The Supreme Court has faced momentous resignations

  But Kennedy’s may be unrivaled.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6-30-18
  

  How Supreme Court Nominations Lost Their Apolitical Pretense

  by David Greenberg

  It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons. Should we be happy that illusion is over?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1-25-18
  

  Out of Control

  by Julian E. Zelizer

  Nixon’s excesses prompted Congress to reassert its own powers, but those changes eroded over time. Now, Trump is demonstrating anew all the dangers of unchecked executive authority.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  1-1-18
  

  Donald Trump’s Watergate?

  by William McGurn

  Robert Bork’s lessons from the Saturday Night Massacre take on new relevance.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  3-6-13
  

  George F. Will: Watergate Reminds Us that D.C. Has Been Worse

  George F. Will is a columnist for the Washington Post.“When I first met Richard Nixon,” Robert Bork says in the book he completed a few weeks before his death in December, “I could see in his expression the conviction that someone had blundered badly.” With the dry wit that, together with his mastery of the dry martini, made him delightful company, Bork says the president, who “almost visibly recoiled,” evidently considered his red beard emblematic of Ivy League left-wingery. Nixon probably thought the barbarians were within the gates.They were. On Nixon’s staff.