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Robert Borke's Nomination to the Supreme Court
Borke was nominated by president regan to the supreme court in 19 87. He's supposed to replace justice lewis powell, who was retiring at the time. But his disastrous confirmation hearings were wer sort of a reckoning, i think, for the conservative legal project. And then we et to borke, who is, as you've identified, kind of the the godfather of some of these ideas and the sort of the perfect iteration of the kind of judge that they're trying to install. If you haven't im seen what he looks like, he looks like,. he looks like an ogre. He looks exactly like his vews.