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 ...

His 1987 nomination hearing was a hotly contested battle of ideas. "On a whole host of subjects, from individual privacy to civil rights, he... Robert Bork, who was at the center of Senate hearings ...

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, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...