MCLEAN, 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 Court helped draw the modern boundaries of ...

Supreme Court nomination hearings have gone from serene to savage, thanks largely to Joe Biden. As head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he presided over the infamous Robert Bork hearings. His ...

The death at 85 of Judge Robert Bork, a towering intellect and leading figure in modern conservative constitutionalism, should be the occasion for serious national reflection. Judge Bork had a ...

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, Fox ...

I expect that the death of Robert Bork will produce a lot of commentary about how different the law would be today if the Senate had confirmed his nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987. That’s an ...

Twenty-five years ago Ronald Reagan tried and failed to put Robert Bork on the Supreme Court. Movement conservatives reacted with remarkably durable outrage to this political defeat. To them, of ...

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 ...

I knew Bob Bork, though not very well, and I am familiar with his writings and of course with the debacle of his rejection for the Supreme Court in 1987. What makes that debacle not only interesting, ...

Judge Robert Bork testifies at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1987. Photo by CNP/Getty Images On Sept. 18, 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork, ...