Michael Cromartie: Your book [Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline] describes the role the Supreme Court has played in promoting cultural decline in America. How has that happened?
Robert H. Bork: Consider Cohen v. California (1971), a case in which a young man wore a jacket into a courthouse that had obscenities written on the back that suggested performing an implausible sexual act with the Selective Service System. He was arrested, and the Supreme Court said he couldn’t be convicted. One of the reasons given was...
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