Robert Bork was an American legal scholar and judge credited with proposing the first modern theory of originalism in 1971, arguing that a court should take from constitutional text rather specific values that the text or its history show the framers actually intended, rather than reading the document to reach a preferred result. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A law professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General from 1973 to 1974 and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988.
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Robert Bork was an American legal scholar and judge credited with proposing the first modern theory of originalism in 1971, arguing that a court should take from constitutional text rather specific values that the text or its history show the framers actually intended, rather than reading the document to reach a preferred result.
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P569 (date of birth): 1927
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P569 (date of birth): 1927-03-01
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P570 (date of death): 2012
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P570 (date of death): 2012-12-19
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P19 (place of birth): Pittsburgh
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P20 (place of death): Arlington County
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Jurist Robert Bork is credited with proposing the first modern theory of originalism in his 1971 law review article, Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, published in The Yale Law Journal.
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What role did Robert Bork play in the Saturday Night Massacre?
As Solicitor General he became Acting Attorney General after two superiors resigned, and he fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on Nixon's order.
On October 20, 1973, President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Cox requested tapes of Oval Office conversations. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order, and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, who also considered it fundamentally wrong, resigned as well, making Solicitor General Bork Acting Attorney General. When Nixon repeated the order, Bork fired Cox. Bork said he acted under pressure from Nixon's attorneys and meant to resign afterward, but was persuaded by Richardson and Ruckelshaus to stay for the good of the Justice Department. He served as Acting Attorney General until January 4, 1974.
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