Robert Bork Dies at 85

Robert Bork, “a former solicitor general, federal judge and conservative legal theorist whose 1987 nomination to the United States Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in a historic political battle whose impact is still being felt, died on Wednesday in Arlington, Va,” the New York Times reports. He was 85.

Jeffrey Toobin says Bork “was an unrepentant reactionary who
was on the wrong side of every major legal controversy of the twentieth
century. The fifty-eight senators who voted against Bork for
confirmation to the Supreme Court in 1987 honored themselves, and the
Constitution. In the subsequent quarter-century, Bork devoted himself to
proving that his critics were right about him all along.”