Robert Bork

Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a conservative American legal scholar and former judge who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork is a former Solicitor General. In 1987 he was nominated for the position of Associate Justice on the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but his nomination was rejected by the Senate in a 58-42 vote.

Recent 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 is currently a lecturer at the University of Richmond law school and Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research - Conservative - Think tank - Netscape - Microsoft - University of Richmond - Ave Maria School of Law - Ann Arbor - Michigan

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In October 2005, Robert Bork came out against the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. When asked by Tucker Carlson about her nomination, he replied, "I think it's a disaster on every level." Bork called her nomination a "slap in the face to the conservatives who've been building up a conservative legal movement for the last 20 years." http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/12853325.htm

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Harriet Miers - Supreme Court

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He has also written several books, including ', in which he argues that the social movements which began with the civil rights movement in the 1950s and continued with the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism in the 1960s, led to dangerous social and moral decline in the U.S. He believes that these movements have in effect eliminated the moral standards necessary for civil society, and have led to a society whose values are inherently opposed to Western civilization, a view echoed by Pat Buchanan in The Death of the West. Bork also advocates a modification to the Constitution which would allow Congressional supermajorities to override Supreme Court decisions.

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Social movement - Civil rights movement - 1950s - Sexual revolution - Feminism - 1960s - Decline - Moral - Civil society - Value - Western - Pat Buchanan - Constitution

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Bork converted to Catholicism in 2003.

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Catholicism - 2003

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