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- Bork, who was criticized by opponents as an enemy of the derived right of privacy in the U.S. Constitution, inadvertently helped to increase it. After a reporter obtained and published a list of movies that Bork and his family had rented from a video store, Congress passed the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which made such intrusions illegal.
- While Bork's most famous act as Nixon's solicitor general was firing Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox during the October 1973 "Saturday Night Massacre," he also helped to launch the career of a prominent liberal.
- As a professor at Yale Law School, he taught constitutional law to both Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham, who would later marry Clinton and is now secretary of state in the Obama administration.
- Bork is one of the few figures in American history whose name became a verb. In 2002, the Oxford English Dictionary defined "bork" as "To defame or vilify (a person) systematically, especially in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way."
Robert Bork. Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) [1] 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.
Jun 1, 2024 · The character was originally named "Judge Moulton" in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", but show runners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein did not know that, and called him "Snyder". The character design was based on Judge Robert Bork. His skin color has changed between yellow and black throughout the series.
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Oct 2, 1987 · October 1, 1987 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. The way Alan Simpson sees things, the people who are making such a prolonged stink about Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court might as well enjoy it ...
Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official and legal scholar who served as the 35th Solicitor General of the United States from 1973 to 1977. A professor at Yale Law School by occupation, he was a member of the Republican Party. He served as Acting United States Attorney General in 1973 ...
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! Of Homer (2001). Ray Richmond and Antonia Coffman, ed. The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (1997) at 44, 65, 99, 100, 115, 124, 140, 173, 200. All quotations from the show in this article are taken from either this source or “The Simpsons Archive,” Bates v.
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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 ...
