US Supreme Court Has Two Sides - Statutory and Social Liberalism - 2 Dec 2003
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...One of the nation's leading jurists says the current U.S. Supreme Court is really two courts. Judge Robert Bork, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has studied the current Supreme Court and its decisions in detail. The former U.S. solicitor general believes the high court operates on two different judicial philosophies. He says on statutory matters, the court typically hands down unbiased decisions. "But if a cultural issue comes up -- pornography, homosexual sodomy, abortion, and so forth -- the court immediately moves to the cultural left and imposes upon on the American people a set of values that the electorate doesn't agree to and, equally important, a set of values that are not to be found in the Constitution.," he says. Judge Bork feels the current court is leading toward the destruction of Americans' freedom as they know it. He says the only way to stop the trend is to put the right people in the U.S. Senate who will approve non-activist judges. |