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Remembering Robert Bork, Failed Supreme Court Nominee, in the Pages of TIME
How the failed Supreme Court nominee was viewed in the pages of TIME
Robert Bork, Whose Failed Nomination Made History, Dies
(ARLINGTON, Va.) — Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon's behest and whose failed 1980s nomination to the Supreme...
Defining The Real Robert Bork
Robert Bork is a centrist judge. An open-minded moderate, he decides cases with the same sense of detachment and fairness that marked the opinions of the man he...
A Bork Without the Bite
Judge Robert Bork, the fire-breathing right-wing ideologue who would wreak havoc on U.S. law, did not show up at the Senate Caucus Room last week. Neither did...
The Law According to Bork
As a gift when Robert Bork was named Solicitor General, his Yale law students gave him a construction worker's hard hat with his new title on it. That was , in...
Gone With the Wind
Making the telephone call was something Senator Arlen Specter had dreaded but felt compelled to do. After Specter imparted his bad news to Robert Bork last week,...
The Road to Bork's Last Stand
Robert Bork was ready to give up. After a punishing confirmation ordeal, his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court faced near certain defeat as a majority of...
Catching The Last
After nearly two decades of living on the relatively modest salary of a law professor and civil servant, Robert Bork went on a spending spree in 1981. Flush with...
The Battle Begins
All at once the political passions of three decades seemed to converge on a single empty chair: the Supreme Court seat vacated by Lewis Powell, a centrist who...
The Nation: Bork: A Professor Caught in the Storm
Nominated last January by President Nixon to become Solicitor General in June, Robert Bork grew more and more impatient to get to Washington. He had taught at...
