Robert Bork has died, and when someone like Robert Bork dies, the inevitable barrage of obituaries — in their collective effort, sometimes preprepared and these days more spontaneous, to quickly ...

It has been a couple of weeks since the death of Robert Bork, which occurred shortly before Christmas and didn’t really get the news coverage that Bork merited. Bork died at age 85. In 1987, he became ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The nomination of Robert H. Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court died on the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 18, 1987. The blow was delivered inadvertently by one of his supporters on the Senate ...

The legend of Robert Bork’s martyrdom casts a shadow over the upcoming Supreme Court nomination, as it has over every nomination for the last 18 years. Bork, for those who somehow haven’t heard his ...

The Scrapbook had the melancholy pleasure last week of attending a memorial service, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, for Robert Bork, who died a few days before Christmas. Judge Bork was ...

On October 23, 1987, the United States Senate held one of the most-controversial votes on a Supreme Court nominee in its history, when it rejected Robert Bork’s appointment. ReaganRobert_Bork Two ...

The following essay is an excerpt from Ilya Shapiro's new book, Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court, due out from Regnery later this month. When Justice ...

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — 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 ...

Less than one hour after Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the United States Supreme Court in 1987, Senator Ted Kennedy took the Senate floor and voiced his dissent. The opposition, swift and ...

Twitter users were laughing – maybe even in their sleep -- at a comment Cory Booker made during Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio. At one point, Booker was asked if he would break up ...