Only for those who don’t live by it.

“Judge Pearson is now facing professional misconduct charges growing out of the incident and the Chungs are going to Bankruptcy court. Americans for the Enforcement of Judicial Ethics AEJE is a judicial watch dog group located in Chicago that has for over 25 years advocated the strict enforcement of judicial ethics.”

The lawyer suing the Korean dry cleaners in DC is more than likely a Democrat. He is an administrative judge for the District of Columbia, lives in northeast DC, and is black. Finding a black Republican in DC who is a lawyer is very unlikely.

Bork has probbably entered teh curmudgeon stages when he just needs to go away.

The lawsuit only mentions a hematoma on his leg. The lawsuit ignores his head injury, I guess nothing is going on up there.

It makes you wonder, since he was making a living with his mind.

This is just as good as the Washington Republican judge suing the Korean dry cleaners. Now, who is the activists and filing frivolous suits?

How do you know he’s Republican? He’s black, so there’s a greater than 90 per cent chance (especially in DC) that he’s a Democrat.

The whole system of courts with impartial judges and juries are supposed to guard against excessive punishment.

They are supposed to, Chris, but they don’t, especially juries who perpetuate the LegaLottO presumably so if they get their turn as plaintiffs someday, it’s likely they’ll strike it rich, too. And of course plenty of resentful losers on juries are ever willing to “punish” the “big, bad, evil corporations” no matter what the facts are, simply because they have deep pockets.

They are supposed to, but they don’t. That is why we need tort reform. That’s also why I am not solidly opposed to government taxation of punitive damages. (I just would prefer juries wouldn’t start thinking of the courts as an alternative tax revenue mechanism.)

What we need, is judges willing to throw frivelous cases out before they even start to waste taxpayer money.

Of what use is an ideology if you are willing to abandon its principles for the prospect of the almighty dollar?

The “ideology” may still be valuable and what Bork said in the past remains valid even though he’s hypocritical now. In the case of “Tempting of America,” it wasn’t ideology, but true respect for law and rule of law, while the many liberal and few current conservative activists in the legal world are substituting their ideology and plain wishes for law or “legal theory” [sic]. (The word “green” “should” now mean red rather than “outmoded” green, etc.)

Bork is at fault here, not what was written in “The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law.”

Bork Quotes

The Tempting of America -Michael Starkman’s site

The Tempting of America – Daniel Young review

The Tempting of America – National Review

Arguments against originalism fall short every time.

Theories of Constituational Interpretation

The Tempting of Richard Posner – Richard Boston

Bork Suit 06/06/07

Bork’s “Tempting of America” was outstanding and I would prefer to remember him from that time. In later years he had demonstrated a non-libertarian, truly social-conservative side to him (referring to “the criminal class,” for example) and this is just plain sick.

OK, lefties, don’t expect as many references any more to Bork from me — not after this.

I like the Edwards idea. That might charm more than a mere $1 out of a jury.

Recent examples of this phenomena include Bork’s lawsuit, the conservative’s movement to pardon Scooter Libby, the outing of Valerie Plame-while claiming to worry about Saddam’s WMD’s, Tom DeLay’s championing of Clinton’s impeachment- yet calling his own legal troubles prosecutorial misconduct, etc etc.