Robert H. Bork, the conservative jurist who fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973 and whose failed nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court ...

WASHINGTON -- Conservatives wanted Robert H. Bork on the Supreme Court. They wound up with Anthony Kennedy, the key vote in reaffirming a woman's right to an abortion.

On the night of Oct. 20, 1973, Robert H. Bork, little known as solicitor general, made a bold decision that brought him instant notoriety and raised questions about his legal judgment that persist … ...

Robert H. Bork, the conservative jurist whose 1987 Supreme Court nomination the Senate rejected by a record margin after one of the bitterest confirmation battles in US history, has died, his son ...

When Robert H. Bork’s Supreme Court nomination was rejected by a 58-42 Senate vote in 1987 for views many considered to be outside the mainstream, many people expressed misgivings about whether ...

The world saw Judge Robert H. Bork, the public figure. He was in the public eye as a Solicitor General, a circuit judge, and—most famously—as a nominee to the Supreme Court. Those who knew him ...

Former Judge Robert H. Bork has decided to return to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for the first time in 15 years this fall to argue on behalf of two industry trade groups ...

Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court’s direction for decades, ...

Bork’s son, Robert H. Bork, Jr., told the AP his father died at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington of complications from heart ailments.

MCLEAN, Va. — Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at President Richard Nixon’s behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern ...