Robert Bork
Robert Bork | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
In office February 9, 1982 – February 5, 1988 | |
Nominated by | Ronald Reagan |
Preceded by | Carl McGowan |
Succeeded by | Clarence Thomas |
United States Attorney General Acting | |
In office October 20, 1973 – December 17, 1973 | |
President | Richard Nixon |
Preceded by | Elliot Richardson |
Succeeded by | William Saxbe |
United States Solicitor General | |
In office June 1973 – January 1977 | |
President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
Preceded by | Erwin Griswold |
Succeeded by | Wade McCree |
Personal details | |
Born | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. | March 1, 1927
Died | December 19, 2012 Arlington, Virginia, U.S. | (aged 85)
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Claire Davidson (1952–1980) Mary Ellen Pohl (1982–2012) |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[1] In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but the Senate rejected his nomination. Bork had more success as an antitrust scholar, where his once-idiosyncratic view that antitrust law should focus on maximizing consumer welfare has come to dominate American legal thinking on the subject.[2]
Early career and family
Bork was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was Harry Philip Bork, Jr. (1897–1974), a steel company purchasing agent, and his mother was Elisabeth (née Kunkle; 1898–2004), a schoolteacher.[3] His father was of German and Irish ancestry, while his mother was of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent.[4] He was married to Claire Davidson from 1952 until 1980, when she died of cancer. They had a daughter, Ellen, and two sons, Robert and Charles. In 1982 he married Mary Ellen Pohl,[5] a Roman Catholic religious sister turned activist.[6]
Bork attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut[7] and earned bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Chicago. While pursuing his bachelor's degree he became a brother of the international social fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. While pursuing his law degree he served on Law Review. At UChicago he was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key with his law degree in 1953 and passed the bar in Illinois that same year. After a period of service in the United States Marine Corps, Bork began as a lawyer in private practice in 1954 and then was a professor at Yale Law School from 1962 to 1975 and 1977 to 1981. Among his students during this time were Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anita Hill, Robert Reich, Jerry Brown, John R. Bolton, Samuel Issacharoff, and Cynthia Estlund.[8][9]
Advocacy of originalism
Bork was best known for his theory that the only way to reconcile the role of the judiciary in the U.S. government against what he terms the "Madisonian" or "counter-majoritarian" dilemma of the judiciary making law without popular approval is for constitutional adjudication to be guided by the framers' original understanding of the United States Constitution. Reiterating that it is a court's task to adjudicate and not to "legislate from the bench," he has advocated that judges exercise restraint in deciding cases, emphasizing that the role of the courts is to frame "neutral principles" (a term borrowed from Herbert Wechsler) and not simply ad hoc pronouncements or subjective value judgments. Bork once said, "The truth is that the judge who looks outside the Constitution always looks inside himself and nowhere else."[10]
Bork built on the influential critiques of the Warren Court authored by Alexander Bickel, who criticized the Supreme Court under Earl Warren for shoddy and inconsistent reasoning, undue activism, and misuse of historical materials. Bork's critique was harder-edged than Bickel's, however, and he has written, "We are increasingly governed not by law or elected representatives but by an unelected, unrepresentative, unaccountable committee of lawyers applying no will but their own." Bork's writings have influenced the opinions of conservative judges such as Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and former Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court, and sparked a vigorous debate within legal academia about how the Constitution is to be interpreted.
Some conservatives criticized Bork's approach. Conservative scholar Harry Jaffa criticized Bork (along with Rehnquist and Scalia) for failing to adhere to natural law principles.[11] Noted jurisprudential scholar Robert P. George explained Jaffa's critique this way: "He attacks Rehnquist and Scalia and Bork for their embrace of legal positivism that is inconsistent with the doctrine of natural rights that is embedded in the Constitution they are supposed to be interpreting."[11]
Antitrust scholar
At Yale, he was best known for writing The Antitrust Paradox, a book in which he argued that consumers were often beneficiaries of corporate mergers, and that many then-current readings of the antitrust laws were economically irrational and hurt consumers. Bork's writings on antitrust law, along with those of Richard Posner and other law and economics and Chicago School thinkers, were heavily influential in causing a shift in the U.S. Supreme Court's approach to antitrust laws since the 1970s.[12][13]
Solicitor General
Bork served as Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice from March 1973[14] to 1977. As Solicitor General, Bork argued several high profile cases before the Supreme Court in the 1970s, including 1974's Milliken v. Bradley, where Bork's brief in support of the State of Michigan was influential among the justices. Chief Justice Warren Burger called Bork the most effective counsel to appear before the Court during his tenure. Bork hired many young attorneys as Assistants who went on to have remarkable careers, including Judges Danny Boggs and Frank H. Easterbrook as well as Robert Reich, later Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration.
"Saturday Night Massacre"
On October 20, 1973, Solicitor General Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Richardson's top deputy, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, also considered the order "fundamentally wrong"[15] and also resigned, making Bork the Acting Attorney General. When Nixon reiterated his order, Bork complied and fired Cox, an act later found to be illegal in November of that year in a suit brought by Ralph Nader. The Justice Department did not appeal the ruling, and because Mr. Cox indicated that he did not want his job back, the issue was considered moot.[15] Bork remained Acting Attorney General until the appointment of William B. Saxbe on January 4, 1974.[16]
In his posthumously published memoirs, Bork stated that following the firings, Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court. Nixon was unable to carry out the promise after his resignation, but Bork was eventually nominated for the Supreme Court in 1987.[17]
United States Circuit Judge
Bork was a circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit between 1982 and 1988. He was nominated by President Reagan on December 7, 1981, was confirmed by the Senate on February 8, 1982, and received his commission on February 9, 1982.
One of his opinions while on the D.C. Circuit was Dronenburg v. Zech, 741 F.2d 1388, decided in 1984. This case involved James L. Dronenburg, a sailor who had been administratively discharged from the Navy for engaging in homosexual conduct. Dronenburg argued that his discharge violated his right to privacy. This argument was rejected in an opinion written by Bork and joined by Antonin Scalia, in which Bork critiqued the line of Supreme Court cases upholding a right to privacy.
In rejecting Dronenburg's suggestion for a rehearing en banc, the D.C. Circuit issued four separate opinions, including one by Bork (again joined by Scalia), who wrote that "no principle had been articulated [by the Supreme Court] that enabled us to determine whether appellant's case fell within or without that principle."[18]
In 1986, President Reagan considered nominating Bork to the Supreme Court vacancy created by the promotion of Associate Justice William Rehnquist to Chief Justice. Reagan ultimately chose Bork's D.C. Circuit colleague, Judge Antonin Scalia, for the position.
U.S. Supreme Court nomination
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President Reagan nominated Bork for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 to replace Lewis Powell. A hotly contested United States Senate debate over Bork's nomination ensued. Opposition was partly fueled by civil and women's rights groups concerned with Bork's opposition to the authority claimed by the federal government to impose standards of voting fairness upon the states (at his confirmation hearings for the position of Solicitor General, he supported the rights of Southern states to impose a poll tax),[19] and his stated desire to roll back civil rights decisions of the Warren and Burger courts. Bork was one of only three Supreme Court nominees, along with William Rehnquist and Samuel Alito, to ever be opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union.[20] Bork was also criticized for being an "advocate of disproportionate powers for the executive branch of Government, almost executive supremacy",[15] most notably, according to critics, for his role in the Saturday Night Massacre.
Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell was a moderate,[neutrality is disputed] and even before his expected retirement on June 27, 1987, some Senate Democrats had asked liberal leaders to form "a solid phalanx" to oppose whomever President Ronald Reagan nominated to replace him, assuming it would tilt the court rightward.[21] Democrats also warned Reagan there would be a fight if Bork were nominated.[22] Nevertheless, Reagan nominated Bork for the seat on July 1, 1987.
Following Bork's nomination to the Court, Sen. Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork declaring:
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, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy ... President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.[23][24]
Bork responded, "There was not a line in that speech that was accurate."[25] In an obituary of Kennedy, The Economist remarked that Bork may well have been correct, "but it worked."[25] Bork also contended in his best-selling[26] book, The Tempting of America, that the brief prepared for Sen. Joe Biden, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, "so thoroughly misrepresented a plain record that it easily qualifies as world class in the category of scurrility."[27]
Television advertisements narrated by Gregory Peck attacked Bork as an extremist. Kennedy's speech successfully fueled widespread public skepticism of Bork's nomination. The rapid response to Kennedy's "Robert Bork's America" speech stunned the Reagan White House, and the accusations went unanswered for two and a half months.[28]
During debate over his nomination, Bork's video rental history was leaked to the press. His video rental history was unremarkable, and included such harmless titles as A Day at the Races, Ruthless People, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Writer Michael Dolan, who obtained a copy of the hand-written list of rentals, wrote about it for the Washington City Paper.[29] Dolan justified accessing the list on the ground that Bork himself had stated that Americans only had such privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.[30]
To pro-choice rights legal groups, Bork's originalist views and his belief that the Constitution does not contain a general "right to privacy" were viewed as a clear signal that, should he become a Justice on the Supreme Court, he would vote to reverse the Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Accordingly, a large number of groups mobilized to press for Bork's rejection, and the resulting 1987 Senate confirmation hearings became an intensely partisan battle. Bork was faulted for his bluntness before the committee, including his criticism of the reasoning underlying Roe v. Wade.[citation needed]
On October 23, 1987, the Senate denied Bork confirmation, with 42 Senators voting in favor and 58 voting against. Two Democratic Senators, David Boren (D-OK) and Ernest Hollings (D-SC), voted in his favor, with 6 Republican Senators (John Chafee (R-RI), Bob Packwood (R-OR), Arlen Specter (R-PA), Robert Stafford (R-VT), John Warner (R-VA), and Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (R-CT)) all voting against him.[citation needed]
The vacant seat on the court to which Bork was nominated eventually went to Judge Anthony Kennedy who was unanimously approved by the Senate, 97-0.[31]
Bork, unhappy with his treatment in the nomination process, resigned his appellate-court judgeship in 1988. [32]
Bork as verb
According to columnist William Safire, the first published use of bork as a verb was possibly in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of August 20, 1987. Safire defines to bork by reference "to the way Democrats savaged Ronald Reagan's nominee, the Appeals Court judge Robert H. Bork, the year before."[33] Perhaps the best known use of the verb to bork occurred in July 1991 at a conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Feminist Florynce Kennedy addressed the conference on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. She said, "We're going to bork him. We're going to kill him politically ... This little creep, where did he come from?"[34] Thomas was subsequently confirmed after one of the most divisive confirmation hearings in Supreme Court history.
In March 2002, the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for the verb bork as U.S. political slang, with this definition: "To defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way."[35]
Later work
Following his failure to be confirmed, Bork resigned his seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and was for several years a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. Bork also consulted for Netscape in the Microsoft litigation. Bork was a fellow at the Hudson Institute. He served as a visiting professor at the University of Richmond School of Law and was a professor at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, FL. In 2011, Bork worked as a legal adviser for the presidential campaign of Republican Mitt Romney.[36]
Works and views
Bork wrote several books, including the two best-sellers The Tempting of America, about his judicial philosophy and his nomination battle, and Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, in which he argued that the rise of the New Left in the 1960s in the U.S. undermined the moral standards necessary for civil society, and spawned a generation of intellectuals who oppose Western civilization.
In The Tempting of America (page 82), Bork explained his support for the Supreme Court's desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education:
By 1954, when Brown came up for decision, it had been apparent for some time that segregation rarely if ever produced equality. Quite aside from any question of psychology, the physical facilities provided for blacks were not as good as those provided for whites. That had been demonstrated in a long series of cases . . . The Court's realistic choice, therefore, was either to abandon the quest for equality by allowing segregation or to forbid segregation in order to achieve equality. There was no third choice. Either choice would violate one aspect of the original understanding, but there was no possibility of avoiding that. Since equality and segregation were mutually inconsistent, though the ratifiers did not understand that, both could not be honored. When that is seen, it is obvious the Court must choose equality and prohibit state-imposed segregation. The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
In 1999, Bork wrote an essay about Thomas More and attacked jury nullification as a "pernicious practice".[37]
In 2003, he published Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule Of Judges, an American Enterprise Institute book which includes Bork's philosophical objections to the phenomenon of incorporating international ethical and legal guidelines into the fabric of domestic law. In particular, he focuses on the problems he sees as inherent in the federal judiciary of three nations, Israel, Canada, and the United States, countries where he believes the courts have grossly exceeded their discretionary powers, and which have discarded precedent and common law, and in their place substituted their own liberal judgment.
Bork also advocated a modification to the Constitution that would allow Congressional super-majorities to override Supreme Court decisions, similar to the Canadian notwithstanding clause. Though Bork had many liberal critics, some of his arguments have earned criticism from conservatives as well. Although an opponent of gun control,[38] Bork denounced what he called the "NRA view" of the Second Amendment, something he described as the "belief that the constitution guarantees a right to Teflon-coated bullets." Instead, he argued that the Second Amendment merely guarantees a right to participate in a government militia.[39]
Bork converted to Catholicism in 2003.[40]
In October 2005, Bork publicly criticized the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.[41][42]
On June 6, 2007, Bork filed suit in federal court in New York City against the Yale Club over an incident that had occurred a year earlier. Bork alleged that, while trying to reach the dais to speak at an event, he fell, because of the Yale Club's failure to provide any steps or handrail between the floor and the dais. (After his fall, he successfully climbed to the dais and delivered his speech.) [43] According to the complaint, Bork's injuries required surgery, immobilized him for months, forced him to use a cane, and left him with a limp.[44] In May 2008, Bork and the Yale Club reached a confidential, out-of-court settlement.[45]
On June 7, 2007, Bork with several others authored an amicus brief on behalf of Scooter Libby arguing that there was a substantial constitutional question regarding the appointment of the prosecutor in the case, reviving the debate that had previously resulted in the Morrison v. Olson decision.[46]
On December 15, 2007, Bork endorsed Mitt Romney for President. He repeated this endorsement on August 2, 2011.
A 2008 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy collected essays in tribute to Bork. Authors included Frank H. Easterbrook, George Priest, and Douglas Ginsburg.
Death
Bork died of complications from heart disease at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia, on December 19, 2012.[1][47][32] Following his death, Scalia referred to Bork as "one of the most influential legal scholars of the past 50 years" and "a good man and a loyal citizen." Mike Lee, Senator from Utah, called Bork "one of America's greatest jurists and a brilliant legal mind."[48]
In popular culture
The look of the character Judge Roy Snyder on The Simpsons is modeled on Robert Bork. The character judge is known for his lenient punishments.[49]
Selected writings
- Bork, Robert H. (1971). "Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems". Ind. L. J. 47: 1. This paper has been identified as one of the most cited legal articles of all time.[50]
- Bork, Robert H. (1978). The Antitrust Paradox. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-465-00369-9.
- Bork, Robert H. (1990). The Tempting of America. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-684-84337-4.
- Bork, Robert H. (1993). The Antitrust Paradox (second edition). New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-02-904456-1.
- Bork, Robert H. (1996). Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline. New York: ReganBooks. ISBN 0-06-039163-4.
- Bork, Robert H. (2003). Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press. ISBN 0-8447-4162-0.
- Bork, Robert H. (Ed.) (2005). A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault On American Values. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press. ISBN 0-8179-4602-0.
- Bork, Robert H. (2008) A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books. ISBN10/13: 1933859687 / 9781933859682
See also
- Aaron Director
- List of failed nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States
- Gerald Ford Supreme Court candidates
- Ronald Reagan Supreme Court candidates
- Swiftboating
References
- Bronner, Ethan (2007). Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America. New York, New York, United States: Sterling. ISBN 1-4027-5227-X.
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Notes
- ^ a b Ethan Bronner (December 19, 2012). "Robert H. Bork, Conservative Jurist, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2012.
Robert H. Bork, a former solicitor general, federal judge and conservative legal theorist whose 1987 nomination to the United States Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in a historic political battle whose impact is still being felt, died on Wednesday in Arlington, Va. He was 85. His death, of complications of heart disease, was confirmed by his son Robert H. Bork Jr.
- ^ Frum, David (2000). How We Got Here: The '70s. New York, New York: Basic Books. p. 327. ISBN 0-465-04195-7.
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(help) - ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths Bork, Elizabeth Kunkle". The New York Times. January 18, 2004.
- ^ "The Americana Annual, 1988: An Encyclopedia of the Events of 1987; Yearbook ..." February 1, 1989. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
- ^ Vile 2003, p. 111
- ^ Beckwith, David (September 21, 1987). "A Long and Winding Odyssey". Time. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
- ^ Bronner 2007, p. 43
- ^ "Special Counsel Investigation". Washington Journal. C-SPAN. August 11, 1998.
- ^ Frey, Jennifer (2005). "Introducing Samuel Issacharoff". The Law School Magazine. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
- ^ Dennis J. Goldford (2005). The American Constitution and the Debate Over Originalism. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-521-84558-8. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
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(help)CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Gerhart, Peter M. (1982). "The Supreme Court and Antitrust Analysis: The (Near) Triumph of the Chicago School". The Supreme Court Review. 1982: 319–349. JSTOR 3109560.
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(help) - ^ Fox, Eleanor M. (1987). "The Battle for the Soul of Antitrust". California Law Review. 75 (3): 917–923. doi:10.2307/3480656. JSTOR 3480656.
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(help) - ^ "Nixon's Men: All Work and No Frills; President's Men: All Work and No Frills", The New York Times. March 21, 1973.
- ^ a b c Noble, Kenneth B. (July 26, 1987). "New Views Emerge of Bork's Role in Watergate Dismissals". The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
- ^ "William Bart Saxbe". The United States Department of Justice.
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- ^ Dronenburg v. Zech, 746 F.2d 1579, 1582 (D.C. Cir. 1984).
- ^ Buchanan, John H.; Kropp, Arthur J. (October 23, 1987). "Bork Hearings Showed How Democracy Works; A Very Small Poll Tax". The New York Times. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
- ^ "ACLU Opposes Nomination of Judge Alito". American Civil Liberties Union. Archived from the original on April 6, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ Schmidt, Steffen (April 12, 2010). "Once Upon a Time Supreme Court Nominations Were the President's Choice". Insider Iowa. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
- ^ Manuel Miranda (August 24, 2005). "The Original Borking". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 10, 2007.
- ^ "34. The Bork Nomination". Eightiesclub.tripod.com. Retrieved June 20, 2010.
- ^ Broder, John M. (August 27, 2009). "Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Is Dead at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
- ^ a b A hell of a senator, Lexington, The Economist, August 29, 2009.
- ^ "Robert H. Bork". Harper Collins. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
- ^ Damon W. Root (September 9, 2008). "Straight Talk Slowdown". Reason. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
- ^ Gail Russell Chaddock (July 7, 2005). "Court nominees will trigger rapid response". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved August 10, 2007.
- ^ "The Bork Tapes Saga". The American Porch. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Video Privacy Protection Act".
- ^ Greenhouse, Linda. Becoming Justice Blackmun. Times Books. 2005. Page 189.
- ^ a b "Judge Robert H. Bork, conservative icon, dies at 85". The Washington Post. December 19, 2012.
- ^ Safire, William (May 27, 2001). "On Language: The End of Minority". New York Times Magazine. p. 12. Document ID 383739671, ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851–2004) database.
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- ^ John Fund (January 8, 2001). "The Borking Begins". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Bork, v". Oxford English Dictionary Online. 2002. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
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ignored (help) - ^ Grove, Lloyd (October 17, 2011). "Robert Bork's Romney Connection". Newsweek. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
- ^ "Thomas More for Our Season". Leadership U. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline". The Mises Review. Retrieved January 1, 2008.
- ^ Life Magazine, Vol 14, No. 13.
- ^ "Judge Bork Converts to the Catholic Faith". National Catholic Register. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Bush says Miers has experience, leadership". The Mercury News. Archived from the original on October 28, 2005. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ Robert H. Bork, "Slouching Towards Miers", Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2005, p. A12.
- ^ "Robert Bork Cites 'Wanton' Negligence in Suing Yale Club for $1-Million". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Robert H. Bork v. The Yale Club of New York City" (PDF). United States Court Southern District of New York. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ Zambito, Thomas (May 9, 2008). ""Supreme nominee Bork settles Yale suit", ''New York Daily News'', May 10, 2008". Daily News. New York. Retrieved June 20, 2010.
- ^ "United States of America v. Lewis Libby" (PDF). United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ Memmott, Mark (December 19, 2012). "Robert Bork, Who Was Turned Down For Supreme Court, Dies". NPR. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
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- Robert Bork at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- A Conversation with Judge Robert H. Bork - Event Video, Federalist Society, 2007-06-26
- Congressional Record: Floor Vote on Bork Nomination
- Think Tank Biography: Robert Bork
- Bork, Robert H. (1996) Our Judicial Oligarchy . 1996 First Things November .
- Robert Bork at IMDb
- Booknotes interview with Bork on Slouching Toward Gomorrah, December 4, 1996.
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