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 ...

WASHINGTON — Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon’s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973.

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 ...

This month marks the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's failed attempt to confirm former federal appellate judge Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, an event that largely set the ...

The trouble the conservative movement and its favorite president ran into in trying to elevate Judge Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court illustrates a seemingly contradictory political reality: Most ...

As a stoical Robert Bork sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the morning of September 15, 1987, surrounded by reporters, klieg lights, and television cameras, the 60-year-old jurist could ...

Former federal judge and conservative legal scholar Robert Bork died early Wednesday at his Virginia home, his family confirmed to CNN. He was 85. Perhaps best known for his nomination to the Supreme ...

October 23 will mark 33 years since the U.S. Senate—led, in part, by then-Senator Joe Biden—defeated the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court of the United States. That same day in 2020, the ...

A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments, by Robert H. Bork (ISI Books, 750 pp., $30) Robert H. Bork has done the reading public the great favor of putting together a collection of his ...

Speculation that Donald Trump may fire Robert Mueller is causing people to beef up on their Watergate history. Trump’s slow-motion purge of officials connected to the Russia investigation has drawn ...

Joe Biden became president in no small part because he’d been vice president. Had he become neither, he would have been remembered for something else entirely: the fate of Robert Bork and Clarence ...

A group of younger aides in the U.S. Capitol invited me to speak a few months ago about a classic conservative book. I chose Judge Robert Bork’s The Tempting of America (1989), which is really several ...