Like a hand reaching up from the grave, the recent Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity represents the posthumous triumph of Richard Nixon, Robert Bork, and Antonin Scalia. In a ruling ...

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 ...

Solicitor-General Robert Bork ultimately carried out Nixon's orders. The incident became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre." In 1977, members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, ...

Both men refused and resigned, before then-Solicitor General Robert Bork (later unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court) agreed to carry out the firing, unleashing a firestorm that ...

Then Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Cox. Now Nixon was addressing 400 people at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual convention in an hour-long televised question-and-answer session ...

Nixon eventually resigned.) What happened this week in the Adams case was the Saturday Night Massacre “on steroids,” Steve Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University, wrote on Thursday .

As acting Solicitor General, Bork played a pivotal role in the notorious “Saturday Night Massacre” during the Watergate era when President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot ...

Robert Bork, a Supreme Court nominee, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 15, 1987, as they began his confirmation hearings.

Originalism was a destructive approach to constitutional interpretation in 1987, when Robert Bork was rejected for a seat on the Supreme Court. It is no more legitimate or desirable today.

Judge Robert Bork’s five days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee were ... He had also been a solicitor general in the Nixon and Ford administrations and a professor at Yale ...