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Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh is an extremely qualified and compassionate individual, who does not deserve to be Borked by Democrats.
Robert H. Bork, the conservative jurist who fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973 and whose failed nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Robert Bork's contributions to American law were vast and varied, and yet in this sad hour of his passing, I find myself thinking first of his jokes. Despite their reputation, lawyers can be funny ...
Former federal judge and conservative legal scholar Robert Bork died early Wednesday at his Virginia home, his family confirmed to CNN. He was 85.
“Borking,” explained: why a failed Supreme Court nomination in 1987 matters Robert Bork’s Supreme Court hearings changed politics — but not how you might think.
Stanley Kutler defends Robert Bork's involvement in the Watergate scandal. Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Cox. The special prosecutor had sought a subpoena for Nixon ...
Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in ...
Robert Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination provoked a lasting partisan divide over judicial nominations, died Wednesday at age 85. A former federal judge and conservative legal theorist ...
The last time I spoke to Robert Bork, who died Wednesday, was 30 years ago this week. In mid-December 1982, I was a second-year law student at Yale finishing up a seminar that Bork taught, a ...
WASHINGTON — It was 29 years ago that the Senate rejected President Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. But in an institution as hidebound and deliberative as the ...
Republicans believe the Robert Bork fight in 1987 justifies their anti-Obama Supreme Court blockade now. Here's why that doesn't make any sense.
Robert Bork, who was at the center of Senate hearings that "marked the modern battle lines over judicial nominations," as NPR's Nina Totenberg has said, is dead, according to The New York Times ...