The beard is gone. Once scraggly and reddish, it had long since turned scraggly and white, and so finally he shaved it off. "It was time to go," he said. But if the cleanshaven Robert H. Bork is no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Senate, ...