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Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988.
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of ...
Nixon then ordered the third-most-senior official at the Justice Department, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox. Bork carried out the dismissal as Nixon asked. [2] Bork stated that he intended to resign afterward, but was persuaded by Richardson and Ruckelshaus to stay on for the good of the Justice Department. [3] [4]
The Antitrust Paradox is an influential 1978 book by Robert Bork that criticized the state of United States antitrust law in the 1970s. A second edition, updated to reflect substantial changes in the law, was published in 1993. [1] Bork has credited Aaron Director as well as other economists from the University of Chicago as influences. [2]
President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court of the United States on July 1, 1987, to replace Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. [15] Bork was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and was known for his strict constructionist views regarding the subject of privacy, for which he believed privacy protections were guaranteed only ...
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline is a 1996 non-fiction book by Robert H. Bork, a former United States Court of Appeals judge.Bork's thesis in the book is that U.S. and more generally Western culture is in a state of decline and that the cause of this decline is modern liberalism and the rise of the New Left.
Among the six original nominees to the Supreme Court, George Washington nominated Robert H. Harrison, who declined to serve. [5] The seat remained empty until the confirmation of James Iredell in 1790. Washington nominated William Paterson for the Supreme Court on February 27, 1793. [6] The nomination was withdrawn by the President the ...
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of ...