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Oct 23, 1987 · The Senate rejected President Reagan’s nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote today, ending a long and contentious debate over a judge alternately portrayed as a...
On October 23, 1987, the Senate rejected Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court by a vote of 42–58. Altogether, two Democrats and 40 Republicans voted in favor of confirmation, whereas 52 Democrats and six Republicans voted against.
Oct 24, 1987 · Six Republicans joined 52 Democrats in voting against Judge Bork, while 2 Democrats, David L. Boren of Oklahoma and Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, joined the 40 Republicans who voted in...
Sep 21, 2018 · Democrats controlled Congress at the time, and the Senate ended up voting against Bork’s confirmation by a vote of 58-42, the biggest margin of any failed Supreme Court nominee in history....
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Oct 23, 2015 · When the full Senate debated Bork’s nomination, 54 Senators in the Democrat-controlled chamber had already said they would not approve Bork. The final vote on October 23 of 58-42 against Bork confirmed that outcome. President Reagan followed Bork’s rejection with the nomination of another federal judge, Douglas Ginsburg.
Dec 19, 2012 · Robert Bork, nominated by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing, Sept. 15, 1987. John Duricka/AP. Robert Bork, whose ...
May 16, 2024 · Robert H. Bork (born March 1, 1927, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died December 19, 2012, Arlington, Virginia) 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 Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1987 was rejected by a bipartisan majority of the ...
