Robert Bork, the conservative judge and scholar whose 1987 nomination by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court sparked an epic battle which has defined Senate judicial politics ever since, has died at age 85. The Senate voted to reject Bork's
Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court's direction for decades, died Wednesday. He was 85. The former Yale law professor and judge
The relentless honesty and arrogant mien of Robert Bork, who has died at 84, during his unforgettable 1987 Supreme Court nomination hearing resulted in two very important things for this nation. First, it precluded the ideologue from becoming a life
Jeffrey Rosen of The New Republic has a worthwhile post on the legacy of Robert Bork's contentious confirmation battle and its legacy. Walter Olson, a libertarian legal scholar who was quite critical of Bork's polemical turn in the 1990s, has a smart
Conservative judge Robert Bork died early Wednesday at the age of 85 at his home in Virginia, two sources close to his family tell CNN today. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork as a Supreme Court justice,
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