June 28, 2015

The Wages of Bork

(Steven Hayward) Increasingly it appears that the failure of the Supreme Court's nomination of Robert Bork in 1987 was a watershed moment for the history of jurisprudence over the last generation, as Anthony Kennedy has been so central to so many bad rulings (and, fairness demands, a handful of good ones, like Citizens United). While Chief Justice Roberts's jurisprudence may remain inscrutable, nothing about Kennedy should surprise us, though. It was known

Source: Power Line