Within 10 days, Bork had become the acting attorney general of the United States.
Bork worked with Haig to appoint Leon Jaworski, a former president of the American Bar Association.
True to his word, Bork fired Cox, but it was Bork who kept Cox's investigation going.
On the right, Robert Bork and Michelle Rhee were squelched based on having radically interesting ideas.
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In 1987, Kennedy led the opposition to President Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court, Robert Bork.
Ellen Bork, a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, writes about Asia.
The contentious Supreme Court nomination hearings of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas took place on Biden's watch.
Festo intends to appeal to the Supreme Court and has enlisted legal heavyweights Kenneth Starr and Robert Bork.
The senator was quick to warn that he thought Bork's conservative ideology would be dangerous for the country.
Reagan went on to choose such nominees for the Supreme Court as Bork and Thomas, and Bush, Sr.
He was active in the civil-rights movement, and a paid-up Democrat until the Robert Bork debacle of 1987.
When Reagan nominated Robert Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Kennedy spearheaded the opposition on ideological grounds.
"Nixon was totally relaxed and occasionally had his feet up on the desk as he questioned us, " Bork writes.
He rejected Bork's conservative philosophy, warning that it posed dangers to the country.
No one should be brutalized like Judge Robert Bork was in the 1980s.
In a meeting with Nixon, Haig and Fred Buzhardt, a special counsel to the president, Bork laid out his case.
One of the great injustices of modern times was the failure of the Senate to confirm Robert Bork for the Supreme Court.
In "Saving Justice, " Bork reveals that the three men conferred and agreed that Richardson and Ruckelshaus would resign instead of firing Cox.
Festo intends to appeal to the Supreme Court and has enlisted the aid of the legal heavyweights Kenneth Starr and Robert Bork.
Interviewers include Buchanan, Armen Alchian, Jack High, Axel Leijonhufvud and Robert Bork.
Bork was already divisive figure because of his theories on law and economics when he was named Solicitor General under Richard Nixon.
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When Bork is being considered for the job of solicitor general, John Dean, the White House counsel, calls to invite him to Camp David.
Used to a more conservative, Robert Bork style approach to our founding document, the view held inside Cato made infinitely more sense to me.
Clark, former Secretaries of Defense James Schlesinger and Caspar Weinberger, Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger, former Solicitors General Judge Robert Bork and Theodore B.
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The repercussions and resentments from the Bork fight could still be felt reverberating in the Senate debates leading up to the expected showdown this week.
And what about the wild battle over Robert Bork's nomination in 1987, which began the current cycle of partisan revenge on the judicial nomination front?
Less than an hour after President Reagan nominated Robert Bork, a fierce conservative, to the Supreme Court, he was skewering him on the Senate floor.
Clark, former Secretaries of Defense Caspar Weinberger and James Schlesinger, former Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger, former Solicitors General Judge Robert Bork and Theodore B.
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He served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, leading opposition to the controversial Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
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