The
first phase of the campaign highlights Romney’s choice of Robert Bork to
lead his constitutional and judicial advisory team. Yes, that Robert Bork.
By allying with Bork, a jurist so extreme he was rejected by a
bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate 25 years ago, Romney has sent a
clear signal that he means to drag America’s courts even farther to the
right, endangering many of the civil rights, liberties and economic
protections won by the American people over the past five decades.
Check out the ad and download the report now at RomneyCourt.com. Then, help spread the word using social media and by asking others to check out the site.
Now
more than ever, the Supreme Court should be an issue of utmost concern
to all Americans. However, few are aware of the extreme agenda Mitt
Romney has for the High Court -- an agenda exemplified by his close
alliance with Robert Bork.
In
1987, People For the American Way led the fight to keep Judge Bork off
the Supreme Court. 25 years later, we are as relieved as ever that we
succeeded. When Bork was nominated, Americans across the political
spectrum rejected the dangerous political agenda that he would have
brought to the bench -- his disdain for modern civil rights
legislation, his acceptance of poll taxes and literacy tests, his
support of government bans on contraception and criminal sodomy laws,
his continued privileging of corporations over individuals. Since then,
he has dug his heels even deeper into a view of the law that puts
corporations first and individuals far behind.
It is
frightening that a quarter century after Robert Bork’s jurisprudence
was deemed too regressive for the Supreme Court, a leading presidential
candidate has picked him to shape his legal policy.
PFAW Senior Fellow Jamie Raskin,
the author of the report, said, “The return of Robert Bork and his
reactionary jurisprudence to national politics should be a three-alarm
wake-up call for all Americans. In his work on the bench as a judge and
off the bench as a polemicist, Bork has consistently placed
corporations above the government and government above the rights of the
people. The idea that Bork could be central to shaping the Supreme
Court in the 21st century is shocking because he wants to turn the
clock back decades in terms of the civil rights and civil liberties of
the people.”
The
new report and ad review Bork’s record from his days as solicitor
general to President Richard Nixon to his turn as co-chair of the
Romney campaign’s committee on law, the Constitution and the judiciary.
Highlights of Bork’s career include:
- Consistently choosing corporate power over the rights of people. As a judge, Bork
regularly took the side of business interests against government
regulators trying to hold them accountable, but the side of the
government when it was challenged by workers, environmentalists and
consumers pressing for more corporate accountability.
- Opposing civil rights, voting rights, reproductive rights, gay rights and individual free speech. Bork
disparaged the Civil Rights Act of 1964; defended the use of
undemocratic poll taxes and literacy tests in state elections; believes
the government should be allowed to ban birth control; disagrees with
the Supreme Court ruling that overturned sodomy laws; and believes that
the government should be able to jail people for advocating civil
disobedience.
- Advocating censorship and blaming American culture first. Bork
promotes censorship to combat what he calls the “rot and decadence” of
American society, saying “I don’t make any fine distinctions; I’m just
advocating censorship.” He writes that “the liberal view of human
nature” has thrown American culture into “free fall.”
- Rejecting the separation of church and state. Bork
rejects the science of evolution, advocates legalizing
school-sponsored prayer and has written that he wants to see the
Constitution’s wall of separation between church and state “crumble.”
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Thank you for all you do, and for your ongoing vigilance in defense of liberty and equality -- the American Way.
Sincerely,
Michael Keegan, President
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