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.

  • Drive Theory

  • Two Judicial Revolutions: The Rehnquist Court and the Roberts Court

    • The Rehnquist Court favored federalism and social liberalism, while the Roberts Court was considered more conservative.
    • The Roberts Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005, under the leadership of Chief Justice John G.
    • Roberts.
    • After the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist, Roberts was nominated by President George W.
    • In its first five years, the Roberts court issued major rulings on gun control. affirmative action, campaign finance regulation, abortion, capital punishment and criminal sentencing.

  • 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

  • Koch and Pure Culture

    • Robert Koch identified anthrax as a disease agent and formulated postulates that are still used to research diseases today.
    • Robert Koch was born in Clausthal in the Harz Mountains, then part of the Kingdom of Hanover, as the son of a mining official.
    • An image of Robert Koch, a pioneering microbiologist.

  • Earthworks

    • Land Art, also known as Earthworks (coined by the artist Robert Smithson) or Earth art, is an art movement that emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.
    • While a number of contemporary artists create work in the tradition of earthworks and Land Art such as Andy Goldsworthy, Vito Acconci, Michael Heizer and Chris Booth, it is largely felt that the movement lost one of its most important figureheads and began to fade following the 1973 death of Robert Smithson in a plane crash.
    • Perhaps the most well-known artist who worked in the genre of Land Art was the American artist Robert Smithson, whose 1968 essay "The Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" provided a critical framework for the movement as a reaction to the disengagement of Modernism from social issues as represented by the critic Clement Greenberg.
    • Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is perhaps the most famous example of Land Art.

  • Koch's Postulates

    • The postulates were formulated by Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884 and refined and published by Koch in 1890.
    • Robert Koch circa 1900.

  • The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment

    • In 1911, using charged droplets of oil, Robert Millikan was able to determine the charge of an electron.
    • Performed by Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1911, the experiment was designed to determine the charge of a single electron, otherwise known as the elementary electric charge.
    • Explain the difference in value of a real electron's charge and the charge measured by Robert Millikan