Robert Bork

(noun)

An American legal scholar who has advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism; served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; nominated in 1987 to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but rejected by the Senate.

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Examples of Robert Bork in the following topics:

  • Battles in the Courts and Congress

    • In 1987, when Associate Justice Louis Powell retired, Reagan nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to the high court.
    • Within 45 minutes of Bork's nomination to the Court, Democrat Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork in a nationally televised speech, declaring:
    • The rapid response of Kennedy's "Robert Bork's America" speech stunned the Reagan White House; though conservatives considered Kennedy's accusations slanderous ideological smears on a well-qualified candidate for the bench, the attacks went unanswered for two and a half months.
    • Reagan nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to the high court.
    • Within 45 minutes of Bork's nomination to the Court, Ted Kennedy (D-MA) took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork in a nationally televised speech.

  • The Cover-Up and the Unraveling

    • Finally, Nixon got a minor Justice Department official, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox.

  • Watergate

    • Control of the Justice Department then fell to Solicitor General Robert Bork, who complied with Nixon’s order.

  • Abraham Lincoln's Family

    • After President Lincoln’s assassination, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln secured the first life pension for the widow of a president, and their son Robert rose to prominence as a lawyer and politician.
    • Mary and her son Robert Lincoln sat with the president through the night.
    • Robert Lincoln, who had served on Ulysses S.
    • Nonetheless, Robert was appointed secretary of war during the administrations of James Garfield and Chester Arthur and served as minister to England during Benjamin Harrison’s administration.
    • Discuss the experiences of Mary Todd and Robert Lincoln in the aftermath of President Lincoln's death

  • Federal Intervention

    • Robert Kennedy replied, "Civil Rights."
    • Robert Kennedy played a large role in the Freedom Riders protests.
    • Despite this, Robert Kennedy intervened on behalf of the civil rights activists on numerous occasions.
    • Throughout this time, both Robert Kennedy and John F.
    • Robert Kennedy demonstrated federal support for the civil rights movement.

  • Lee's Surrender at Appomattox

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    • Grant's Army of the Potomac and General Robert E.
    • Grant sat at the simple wooden table on the right while Robert E.

  • 1968: The Year of Upheaval

    • In the spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.
    • On February 28, Robert S.
    • Just two months later, on June 5th, 1968, Robert F.
    • With Johnson's withdrawal, the Democratic Party quickly split into four factions, each of which distrusted the others: labor unions and big-city supporters of Vice President Hubert Humphrey; college students and upper-middle-class whites who actively opposed the war and rallied behind Senator Eugene McCarthy; Catholics, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other racial and ethnic minorities who were passionate supporters of Senator Robert F.
    • Outline the events of 1968 including the Tet Offensive and assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy

  • The Battle of Fredericksburg

    • McClellan had stopped Robert E.
    • The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E.

  • The Southern Renaissance

    • The Southern Renaissance included famed writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Robert Penn Warren.
    • The group included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and others.
    • Beyond Faulkner, playwright Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie), author Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men), and others including Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, and Allen Tate were classified as Southern Renaissance writers.

  • Democracy

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