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Robert Bork Hired by Pizza Man for Catholic Law School

By Henry Messer

Can the grace of St. Bork of Pepperoni delivery success to Domino Pizza founder Tom Monaghan's Catholic law school?

Detroit, Michigan--Domino's Pizza founder, Tom Monaghan, says he will spend $50 million to create a new law school in Ann Arbor producing lawyers who would follow Catholic moral teaching. It will be called Ave Maria School of Law.

The first professor who has signed on is Robert Bork, author of Slouching Toward Gomorrah.

Bork, whose nomination was rejected when Ronald Reagan attempted to install him as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, has excoriated members of that same Supreme Court as "robed masters" and "a band of outlaws."

The failed court nominee urged a constitutional amendment allowing Congress to override by majority vote any Supreme Court decisions they don't like.

Failing that, Bork said, "Perhaps an elected official will one day simply refuse to comply with a Supreme Court decision. That suggestion will be regarded as shocking, but it should not be."

For 205 years, the federal court system has been independent and not controlled by the other branches of government. As Thomas Jefferson said, it would only work if the courts were independent.

In Bork's Slouching Toward Gomorrah [endorsed on its jacket by Ralph Reed and William Bennett, and pronounced 'brilliant' by Pat Robertson,] there is a broad attack on liberals, and the controversial legalist makes a proposal to amend the constitution itself in order to allow Congress to overrule federal and state courts by simple majority vote!

U.S. Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia has been in Ann Arbor advising Monaghan.

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Pizza mogul Monaghan has already founded the "Thomas Moore Center for Law and Justice" in Ann Arbor.