about blocking demand for the legal dirty work of richard nixon who obtained a pardon after he resigned the presidency. the fight was about much more than that. it was a fight against robert bork s america. robert bork s america is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks will be sits in segregated lunch counters. rogue police can break down citizens doors and school s children cannot be taught about evolution. writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government. robert bork s confirmation hearing, senator candy expose robert bork as someone who didn t believe in a right to privacy, including privacy behind a closed bedroom door. let the repeat about this creative, generalized, and undefined right of privacy. if it really is a right of sexual freedom in private, as some people have suggested, then bowers against hardwick, which upheld the statute
the left saw him as a far right extremist. liberals were appropriately worried about what robert bork would do if he got on the supreme court. among his views, he was against the 1964 civil rights act. blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters. ted kennedy led the charge against bork. robert bork s america would have women forced into back ally abortions. the women s groups afraid of you. one example of why, bork had upheld a mandatory sterilization order for women who wanted to work at a chemical plant. i suppose the five women who chose to stay on the job on that job with higher pay and chose sterilization, i suppose that they were glad to have the choice. those in favor of the bork nomination will vote i. those opposed will vote no.
immediately confirmed the right thought bork would be i ashoohin. he was a distinguished scholar and an appeals court judge. so well thought of in the legal academy there would be no problem getting him confirmed. the left saw him as a far right extremist. liberals were appropriately worried about what robert bork would do if he got on the supreme court. among his views, he was against the 1964 civil rights act. blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters. ted kennedy led the charge against bork. robert bork s america is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions. the women s groups frankly are afraid. they re afraid of you. one incendiary example of why? bork had upheld a mandatory sterilization order for women who wanted to work at a chemical plant. i suppose the five women who chose to stay on the job, on that job, with higher pay and
been imparted, the volunteers would begin to practice. in the evening sessions they sat at long tables pretending they were at lunch counters while other students played the role of harassing whites. c.t. vivian who became a close associate of king recalled that we actually poured coffee on people and kicked chairs out from under them. students learned how to take the blows, not just physically, but mentally so they could endure being spit on and still respond with some sense of dignity. reverend al, that was the balance. such a difficult balance that you were talking about. you know, wyatt t. walker who died a couple of years ago was the first chairman of the board when i started national action network, and he would tell me about these sessions, me coming out of the north, i didn t know any of it, and i was a generation behind them, and he
we have a long history of this. let s not forget ted kennedy s totally complete, dishonest diatribe about supreme court nominee at the time at robert bork. outright lying. take a look. robert bork s america is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, police could break down citizens the doors in midnight raids, and school children could not taught about evolution. ours would be centered at the whim of government. sean: now ted kennedy cared so deeply about women that he actually let one drown that slowly trapped his car in a pond in chappaquiddick and he went home that night, it was a house across the street with a light on and he didn t go for help, called nobody, mary died and he did nothing. and like kennedy many of these democrats don t really care about the well-being of women