Friday, December 19, 2014

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JUDGE ROBERT BORK [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY DECEMBER 14, 2014 TO SATURDAY DECEMBER 20, 2014]

 

Robert Bork
QUOTE:Just as the legislature legitimately may conclude that capital punishment deters crime, so it may conclude that capital punishment serves a vital social function as society’s expression of moral outrage.” (Robert Bork, brief for the United States in Gregg v. Georgia before the U.S Supreme Court)

AUTHOR: Robert Bork A.K.A Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but the Senate rejected his nomination. Bork had more success as an antitrust scholar, where his once-idiosyncratic view that antitrust law should focus on maximizing consumer welfare has come to dominate American legal thinking on the subject.

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