Summary of Erwin Chemerinsky's Worse Than Nothing

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#1 The United States Senate rejected the appointment of Judge Robert Bork to be the next Supreme Court justice by a vote of forty-two in favor and fifty-eight against. He was one of the most qualified nominees in American history.

#2 Robert Bork was a highly qualified Supreme Court justice, but his conservative ideology was seen as too much of a risk.

#3 Robert Bork was one of the most qualified Supreme Court justices in American history, but his conservative ideology was seen as too much of a risk.

#4 In what would become an all-too-typical display of political hypocrisy, Senate Republicans in 2020 rushed through the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, a federal court of appeals judge who had been President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had died in September 2020.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350032345

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The confirmation hearings of Judge Robert Bork for the United States Supreme Court in 1987 were one of the most resounding defeats for a Supreme Court nominee in American history. Bork was a conservative, but his credentials and intellect were impeccable.

#2

Bork’s article was written two years before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, but opponents of abortion rights quickly latched on to his theory to explain why the decision was wrong: the Constitution is silent about abortion rights and the Framers did not intend to protect them.

#3

When Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, his opponents focused on the implications of his originalist philosophy. He was honest about the implications of his philosophy, but he tried to reassure the senators that he would not overrule precedents.

#4

The Republicans’ hypocrisy in confirming Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg was stunning. Just four years earlier, they had refused even to hold hearings on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016.

#5

Barrett, a graduate of Notre Dame Law School, had clerked for Justice Scalia and was a professor at her alma mater. She was unabashed about her right-wing views and a frequent speaker at Federalist Society events. She was widely