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    Dec 19, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Robert H. Bork dies at 85; pivotal figure in Supreme Court history

    Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court's direction for decades, died Wednesday. He was 85.
    Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court's direction for decades, died Wednesday. He was 85. The former Yale law professor and judge on...

    Tags: Lawyers, Civil Rights, Heart Disease, Judges, George H.W. Bush

    2. Jun 13, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  2. Allan Powell: What gives the U.S. Constitution its legitimacy?

    From time to time, I receive an article or book from a reader who was impressed enough with the contents to share it with me. One such gift was a Jan. 17, 2011, issue of The New Yorker, with a request to read “The Cult of the Constitution”...

    Tags: Tea Party Movement, Philosophy, Antonin Scalia, Punishment, U.S. Congress

    3. Feb 19, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  3. The double threats

    Cal Thomas
    Just as Lenin's body remains on public display in Russia, because one never knows when he might be useful to rally the masses, so, too, does the ghost (but thankfully not the body) of the late Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) remain a useful symbol for...

    Tags: State of the Union Address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Hagel, Parties and Movements

    4. Jan 2, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  4. Robert Bork, verb

    Paul Greenberg
    Bork, v., trans., "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." --Oxford English Dictionary in an entry...

    Tags: Ronald Reagan, Philosophy, Judges, Mary Jo Kopechne, Crime, Law and Justice

    5. Dec 24, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Robert Bork, the original originalist

    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 was denied his rightful position on the Supreme Court by liberals bent on warping constitutional language for partisan purposes. Constitutional conservatives for the past 25 years, however, have gone on precisely the sort of judicial crusade that Judge Bork condemned in his major writings. While Judge Bork and such contemporary justices as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas share a superficial commitment to constitutional originalism, the originalism of the conservatives on the present Supreme Court bears little relationship to the originalism Mr. Bork pioneered during the 1970s and 1980s.
    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 was denied his rightful position on the Supreme Court by...

    Tags: Activism, Minority Groups, Antonin Scalia, Judges, Public Officials

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