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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 … ...

The nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court raises questions that cannot be lightly decided — questions of importance and difficulty. Judge Bork is a man of high intellect and disti… ...

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 ...

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

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 ...