Who will be our next Ted Kennedy?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/28/remembering_the_darker_side_of_ted_kennedy_98069.html

Sen. Kennedy's rhetorical ruthlessness was perhaps most famously displayed within minutes of the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. The world now knows that Bob Bork is one of the most intelligent, witty, reasonable, and civilized men in America. But at the time, few knew anything about him. Kennedy rushed to the Senate floor to introduce a grotesque bogeyman: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is -- and is often the only -- protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy."
Judge Bork recounted later that when he met privately with the senator, Kennedy mumbled, "Nothing personal." When you have calumniated a man before the entire world, you cannot claim that it isn't personal.

Now that Judge Kennedy announced his retirement a battle of words will begin regardless of the appointed to replace.

Ted Kennedy used words without facts to assault Bork. Yes he used the first Amendment to spread fear and negative opinion. Maybe that should be made into a law that stops the assault without facts.