Robert Bork, who died Wednesday, occupies a peculiar position in the pantheon of American conservative heroes. Most conservatives celebrated Judge Bork as the champion of constitutional values who ...

Here is news to many who were not there in 1987 when the Senate rejected Robert Bork for the Supreme Court: Character assassination, smear tactics or dirty tricks did not defeat the nominee. He ...

Robert Bork’s book Slouching toward Gomorrah, in which he comments on the role of religion in public life, remains timely 20 years on.

Robert Bork, Who Was Turned Down For Supreme Court, Dies : The Two-Way His 1987 nomination hearing was a hotly contested battle of ideas. "On a whole host of subjects, from individual privacy to ...

Early in the 1960s, Bork had argued against passing the Civil Rights Act. He had written that the 14th Amendment banned discrimination only on the basis of race, not sex.

Bork's name has resurfaced on the floor of the Senate again since Scalia's death. In one exchange last week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said the Bork nomination launched a period of bitter ...

Originalism was a destructive approach to constitutional interpretation in 1987, when Robert Bork was rejected for a seat on the Supreme Court. It is no more legitimate or desirable today.

Updated at 11:11 a.m. ET. MCLEAN, Va. 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 ...

In the 1980s, when the late Judge Robert Bork faced Senate scrutiny over his ill-fated nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, a small independent newspaper published a list of his rentals at a ...