Aron: Do you think Robert Bork should have been confirmed?
Alito: I certainly thought he should have been confirmed. I think he was one of the most outstanding nominees of this century.
Aron: Why? How?
Alito: He is a man of unequalled intellectual ability, understanding of constitutional history, someone who had thought deeply throughout his entire life about constitutional issues and about the Supreme Court and the role that it ought to play in American society. I think that if the public had accurately understood the positions that he holds and had made those wishes known to their elected representatives that he would have been overwhelmingly confirmed. But I think that through a sort of a fluke about the way the nomination came up and the kind of campaign that was mounted against him, he was unjustifiably rejected.
Bork's beliefs:
Bork's originalist views and his belief that the Constitution does not contain a general "right to privacy" (as opposed to specific privacy rights, such as the Fourth Amendment right to be secure from unreasonable searches) were viewed as a clear signal that, should he become a Justice on the Supreme Court, he would vote to reverse the Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade...
... He has also written several books, including Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, in which he argues that the social movements which began with the civil rights movement in the 1950s and continued with the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism in the 1960s, led to dangerous social and moral decline in the U.S.
Sammy Scalito, endorsing whack-job, implicit racism his whole career.
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