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On Civil Rights: 1987: "Robert Bork's America" means censorship & segregation

Reagan nominated Bork for the seat on July 1, 1987. Within 45 minutes, Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork in a nationally televised speech, declaring: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers & artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, & the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is--and is often the only--protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy. No justice would be better than this injustice."

Bork complained that "There was not a line in that speech that was accurate." In its obituary of Kennedy, The Economist remarked that Bork was correct about the inaccuracy of Kennedy's speech, "But it worked."

Source: Wikipedia.org, "Robert Bork", re: Slouching Towards Gomorrah Nov 17, 2009

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