Robert Bork

Robert Bork

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  Hagel pick test of Senate on presidential choices

  In the middle of a bitter fight over a Republican president's nominee for defense secretary, a former White House occupant pleaded with senators to ... 

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  Bork nomination fight altered judicial selection

  Conservatives wanted Robert H. Bork on the Supreme Court. They wound up with Anthony Kennedy, the key vote in reaffirming a woman's right to an ... 

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  Bork, whose failed nomination made history, dies

  Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon's behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped ... 

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  The veep: A regular and not-so-regular Joe

  After Joe Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, speculation was rampant about ...