President Donald Trump is expected to appoint several hundred new federal judges.  Nothing he does will have a greater impact on the future of America.  But which judges should be appointed?  How can originalists be identified?  This will not be easy since most law professors, and many lawyers, are no longer originalists – i.e., those who base their judgments on the meaning of the words in the Constitution and in laws passed by Congress.  Today, many think the Constitution is a living document that allows judges to make interpretations that in their minds bring law up to date.  As Trump's nominated judges are considered by the Senate, what happened to Robert Bork (whose name has been immortalized by the verb "borking") should be revisited.  In 1987, President Reagan nominated Bork to the Supreme Court.  He was a law professor at Yale, an expert in anti-trust law, and a...(Read Full Post)