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February 2013

Robert H. Bork, 1927–2012

Remembering the late jurist, Robert H. Bork.


Robert H. Bork, 1927–2012

Judge Robert H. Bork, who died in December, age 85, was a notable contributor to The New Criterion and a close friend of the editors. We are pleased to feature in this issue two items memorializing Bob Bork’s achievement. The first is an excerpt from his forthcoming book Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General, introduced by Judge Bork’s friend and colleague the Hon. A. Raymond Randolph. The second is Andrew C. McCarthy’s revisiting of the furor surrounding Judge Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1987. The realm of politics has never been the realm of truth, but the vicious frenzy that the Left visited upon Bob during his nomination may be ...

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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 31 February 2013, on page 2

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