Robert Bork

Robert Bork was a Law Professor at Yale and Solicitor General of the United States.  He was a gentleman, a brilliant legal intellectual, a proponent of judicial restraint and believed that the 'Original Intent' of the Founding Fathers was important (NOT, the Constitution means whatever we feel like today).  In 1987, he was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Reagan.  Within 45 minutes of Robert Bork's nomination, Sen. Ted Kennedy delivered an absolutely savage attack on Judge Bork.  He said that in Robert Bork's America: women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in nighttime raids...writers and artists could be censored by the government, and the doors of federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens."  Democrats mounted a massive personal attack trying to destroy Judge Bork's character.  Democrats went
 through his garbage. They even got his private video rental history trying to find mud to fling at him.  People were shocked by the ferocity of the Democrat attacks on Judge Bork  The systematic demonization and personal destruction of Judge Bork  set a new low in modern day America.