Robert Bork has written a book " The Tempting of America " to be published by the Free Press . In it he discusses his views of democracy , legal theory and his contentious election as nominee to the Supreme Court . He claims that by politicizing the courts , Americans have eaten away at " the peoples right to make the laws we want to live by . " This undermines our constitutional separation of powers . in Washington over the weekend, Bork -- the target of the first all-out, national political campaign to defeat a Supreme Court nominee -- insisted that his book was more about the general "tendency to run law into politics" than about his own particular unhappy experience. It is not just liberals ; conservatives have done the same thing . Both are wrong . He blames law school professors and other elite groups who no longer trust the American people to decide our laws .
Robert Bork has written a book " The Tempting of America " to be published by the Free Press . In it he discusses his views of democracy , legal theory and his contentious election as nominee to the Supreme Court . He claims that by politicizing the courts , Americans have eaten away at " the peoples right to make the laws we want to live by . " This undermines our constitutional separation of powers . It is not just liberals ; conservatives have done the same thing . Both are wrong . He blames law school professors and other elite groups who no longer trust the American people to decide our laws .