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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.
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.
Articles relating to Robert Bork (1927–2012): American legal scholar, solicitor general of the United States (1973–1977), acting U.S. Attorney General (1973–74), a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1982–1988), and unsuccessful nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1987).
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 ...
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]
The Tempting of America is a 1990 non-fiction book by former United States Court of Appeals judge Robert Bork.Published three years after the U. S. Senate rejected Bork's nomination to the United States Supreme Court, the book offers a personal account of the nomination battle, argues for an originalist approach to constitutional interpretation, and warns against what Bork sees as the ...
The name 'Pumpkin Papers" arose from four or five rolls of camera film hidden in a pumpkin at the Whittaker Chambers Farm in December 1948. The Pumpkin Papers are a set of typewritten and handwritten documents, stolen from the US federal government (thus information leaks) by members of the Ware Group and other Soviet spy networks in Washington, DC, during 1937–1938, withheld by courier ...