Robert Bork Judicial Quotations

confirm a nominee with no visible judicial philosophy who lacks the basic skills of persuasive argument and clear writing.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Without adherence to the original understanding, even the actual Bill of Rights could be pared or eliminated. It is asserted nonetheless, and sometimes on high authority, that the judicial philosophy of original understanding is fatally defective in any number of respects.

the most prominent and intellectually powerful advocate of judicial restraint.