OPINION
Why Democrats will come to regret impeaching President Trump
By Kevin D. Williamson
December 21, 2019 | 10:39am | Updated
The House vote to impeach Trump echoes the Democrats' crusade against Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork in 1987.
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Like the effort to impeach Donald Trump, which was underway before he even was sworn into office, the effort to block Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court was in full swing before Ronald Reagan even had settled on a nominee, with Democrats promising a “solid phalanx” of opposition to any judge who could not satisfy their various ideological litmus tests.
The breathtakingly dishonest and shockingly vicious campaign against Bork — led in no small part by that third-rate ward heeler Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware — announced a fundamental change in the character of Supreme Court nomination hearings.
And that may have been inevitable: Precisely because the Supreme Court has not been staffed with men such as Bork, who understood the proper role of the judiciary in our constitutional system, the court over the years has become a kind of national super-legislature, one that Democrats frequently turned to for fortification when they failed to achieve their aims through ordinary democratic processes.
That intensified the political character of the court and hence the political character of the nomination process. The campaign against Bork was unusual at the time. It is not unusual now. The standard operating procedure today is modeled on the Democrats’ campaign against Brett Kavanaugh, a Kafkaesque episode during which the nominee’s willingness to defend himself from slander was taken as evidence of his unfitness for the Supreme Court.
Judge Robert Bork, nominated by President Reagan to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, is sworn before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill at his confirmation hearing in 1987.
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Republicans have got in on that action, too, of course, with Sen. Mitch McConnell sitting on Merrick Garland’s nomination until the clock ran out on the Obama administration. It was bare-knuckled and petty but procedurally within the rights of the Senate majority to do so.
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