President Trump has compromised the Justice Department and other branches of government in numerous ways. It’s offensive to ...

The coalition’s complaint accuses Bondi — the 59-year-old former Florida attorney general and state prosecutor in the Tampa area — of playing a central role in the improper firings and resignations of ...

He also refused and resigned. Nixon finally prevailed when he ordered the Justice Department’s solicitor general, Robert Bork, to terminate Cox — a move that backfired on Nixon and ultimately led to ...

Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald ...

ARLINGTON, 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 ...

Robert Bork's nomination was defeated 58 to 42 on October 23, 1987. It was close to a party-line vote, with two Democrats voting in favor and six Republicans opposed.

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.

In Bork’s case, there were real and valid reasons for many Americans to not want him on the Supreme Court, based on his rulings in cases as a Circuit Court judge, his views and actions as ...

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson stated that Democrats "threw out the rulebook of decency, honesty and fairness" to derail Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination in 1987 ("Democracy would ...

Bork was the Justice Department official who fired Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox in October 1973 on orders from President Richard Nixon. The attorney general and his deputy at the time ...