Robert Heron Bork was born in Pittsburgh in 1927 and attended the University of Chicago Law School, where his conservative leanings were forged. He was a Marine Corps veteran.

Robert Bork's contributions to American law were vast and varied, and yet in this sad hour of his passing, I find myself thinking first of his jokes. Despite their reputation, lawyers can be funny ...

Stanley Kutler defends Robert Bork's involvement in the Watergate scandal. Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Cox. The special prosecutor had sought a subpoena for Nixon ...

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 ...

Robert Bork, nominated by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing, Sept. 15, 1987.

Robert Bork passed away yesterday at the age of 85. A more decent man it would be hard to find. That was, of course, not what was being said about him when President Reagan nominated him for the ...

Robert Bork thought this because of the so-called "Chicago school" of economics. Their takeover was the major success in the academic world, in implementing academic ideas, at the time.

Robert Bork III tells Fox his grandfather "was just a great person to talk to. He was open to conversation and I looked forward to seeing him." It was in 1987 when President Reagan nominated Bork ...

The death at 85 of Judge Robert Bork, a towering intellect and leading figure in modern conservative constitutionalism, should be the occasion for serious national reflection. Judge Bork had a ...

“Borking,” explained: why a failed Supreme Court nomination in 1987 matters. Robert Bork’s Supreme Court hearings changed politics — but not how you might think.

Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, apparently seeking to counter fears that he would try to reverse critical Supreme Court decisions on constitutional rights, told the Senate Judiciary Committee ...