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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.
On July 1, 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Lewis F. Powell Jr., who had earlier announced his retirement. At the time of his nomination, Bork was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a position to ...
Sep 21, 2018 · Reagan nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork, testifies on the fourth day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in Washington D C. Bork was rejected by the Senate. In 1987,...
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.
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 18, 2023 · Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative legal scholar and former judge who advocates an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution. Bork is also a highly accomplished antitrust law scholar and lawyer.
Dec 19, 2012 · Federal judge and former solicitor general Robert H. Bork died Wednesday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., of complications from heart disease, according to the Associated Press....
Dec 20, 2012 · Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court’s direction for decades, died...
Dec 19, 2012 · Robert Bork, the former US solicitor general and failed Supreme Court nominee, has died aged 85. His son said Bork had died on Wednesday from complications of heart ailments.
Dec 19, 2012 · Robert Bork, a former solicitor general, federal judge and conservative legal theorist whose 1987 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in a historic political battle...
