(Community Matters) Seriously? Mitt Romney has appointed Robert Bork to co-chair his judicial advisory committee? This is the guy who fired Nixon’s special prosecutor for attempting to obtain his secret recordings? The guy who’s passionately argued against civil right legislation, against the integration of lunch counters? The guy who has led in arguing for relaxed regulation against corporations? The guy who doesn’t believe the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause should extend to women? The guy who originated today’s constitutional originalism – to an extreme – arguing that Americans don’t hold any rights not articulated by the constitution, including no inherent right to privacy.
It is not a stretch to worry that a Mitt Romney Supreme Court could further expand the rights of corporations while restricting the rights of Americans – including overturning women’s, minorities’ and LGBT equality and protections.
“Corporations are people too” – Mitt Romney, 2011
Community Matters 