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Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988.
Sep 21, 2018 · After Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., a long-time “swing” vote on the Court, announced his retirement, President Reagan nominated Robert Bork, a federal appeals court judge.
Dec 19, 2012 · The relentless honesty and arrogant mien of Robert Bork, who has died at 84, during his unforgettable 1987 Supreme Court nomination hearing resulted in two very important things for this nation.
Aug 2, 2024 · Robert H. Bork was an American legal scholar, federal judge, and onetime U.S. solicitor general (1973–77) whose nomination to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1987 was rejected by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate.
Oct 23, 2023 · On October 23, 1987, the United States Senate held one of the most-controversial votes on a Supreme Court nominee in its history, when it rejected Robert Bork’s appointment.
Robert Heron Bork was a federal judge, U.S. Solicitor General, legal scholar and public intellectual who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism and devised the Consumer Welfare Standard model that has governed antitrust law for more than a half-century.
Sep 9, 2020 · Robert Bork's failed Supreme Court nomination forever altered the course of judicial politics in America.
Dec 19, 2012 · Robert Bork, who was at the center of Senate hearings that "marked the modern battle lines over judicial nominations," as NPR's Nina Totenberg has said, is dead, according to The New York Times...
Aug 3, 2023 · Robert Bork (1927–2012) was a former federal judge, a rejected Supreme Court nominee, and a staunch Republican and conservative legal scholar who advocated an originalist reading of the First Amendment.
Dec 19, 2012 · Robert H. Bork, a former solicitor general, federal judge and conservative legal theorist whose 1987 nomination to the United States Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in a historic ...
