It's a safe bet that Robert Bork's obituary—whenever that cheerless day arrives—will bang on for many paragraphs about his historic role in Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" at the ...

"When I first met Richard Nixon," Robert Bork says in the book he completed a few weeks before his death in December, "I could see in his expression the conviction that someone had blundered badly." ...

Ex-federal judge and legal scholar Robert H. Bork, who fired a special Watergate prosecutor for President Nixon before flaming out as a nominee to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, died ...

Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon's order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973.

Bork, then Nixon's solicitor general, ... Labeling Robert Bork a guardian of the probe forgets the facts. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon’s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox ...

Robert Bork's Supreme Court Nomination 'Changed Everything, ... And as solicitor general in the Nixon administration, he played a small but crucial role in the Watergate crisis.

“Robert Bork was one of the most influential legal scholars of the past 50 years,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin ... D.C. to work for Nixon, Bork had worked as a professor at Yale Law ...

Bork said he followed Nixon’s order and temporarily took over the Justice Department to prevent mass resignations. NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 18: Donald Trump Jr. arrives at Trump Tower on January ...

Former federal judge and conservative legal scholar Robert Bork died early Wednesday at his Virginia home, his family confirmed to CNN. He was 85. Perhaps best known for his nomination to the ...

The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law By Robert H. Bork Free Press, 448 pages, $22.50 This is the epic of a new Republican phoenix. Like Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon ...

Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon's order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973.