Posts tagged Supreme Court

If the propect of a Romney presidency wasn’t already scary enough, check out this development: The Mittster has made Robert Bork the head of his judicial/consitutional law team. The same Bork who many Republicans thought was too much of a right-wing ideologue to support his nomination to the US Supreme Court back in the 1980s. (The fight waged against his nomination was so intense that it even spawned a verb: borked.)

[Bork (l) and Ronald Reagan, 1987. Photographer unknown.]

If you’re not familiar with Bork, let’s just say that he makes Antonin Scalia seem like a reasonable sort of guy. People for the American Way has put together a report on Bork’s political/legal views and background. Check it out here.

The next president will almost certainly get to fill at least one vacancy on the Supreme Court. Any guess as to who Romney’s nominee might be?