Ethics

Republican Myths About Robert Bork

By Ed Brayton

Tom Korologos, a Reagan administration aide who helped Robert Bork in his confirmation fight, peddles some well worn myths about the Bork nomination in this op-ed in the Washington Post. Like this one:

The Reagan White House, as well as Judge Bork himself, asked me to assist with his confirmation. Bork had literally written the textbook on antitrust law while a professor at Yale Law School; he was a former Solicitor General as well as a federal circuit judge; and he had perhaps the most brilliant legal mind of his era. I thought we were in for a fairly routine confirmation.

Boy, was I wrong.

Bork's problem? He was conservative.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).