When Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1987, the Reagan White House was not prepared to fight effectively for his confirmation. Indeed, Bork was such a respected judge and admired ...

It all began with Robert Bork. Nominated for the United States Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987, Bork was superbly qualified for the job. In his career, he had been a professor at Yale Law ...

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) – Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon’s behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of ...

WASHINGTON - Conservatives wanted Robert H. Bork on the Supreme Court. They wound up with Anthony Kennedy, the key vote in reaffirming a woman's right to an abortion. The fight over Bork's failed ...

Harriet Miers, President Bush's White House counsel and the latest nominee to the Supreme Court, has endured harsh criticism from conservative commentators and activists. When Robert Bork was ...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- The Reagan administration, struggling to save the doomed Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork, considered calling in movie star Charlton Heston to give him a boost, newly ...

The modern Supreme Court confirmation ritual dates back to President Reagan's failed nomination of Robert Bork in 1987. Democrats in the Senate mercilessly, and sometimes unfairly, picked apart Bork's ...

Robert Bork has announced that he will oppose the nomination of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. The earth did not shake. Bork was Ronald Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court who was rejected by ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Robert Bork, a symbol of the U.S. conservative legal movement and a failed nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, died on Wednesday, said Leonard Leo, executive ...

Randy Barnett writes that “Somewhere, Robert Bork is Smiling” (op-ed, July 11) because the Supreme Court now has a majority that abides by the originalist judicial philosophy he championed. There’s ...

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon’s behest and whose failed 1980s nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of ...