1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Lewis F. Powell...

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Senate...

Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who had died one month earlier. At the time of his nomination, Garland was...

rights organizations and southern blacks, who opposed Judge Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination, to oppose Justice Thomas." He also wrote that, "in selecting...

The nomination and confirmation of justices to the Supreme Court of the United States involves several steps, the framework for which is set forth in the...

entered in the Senate's record. There have been 37 unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States. Of these, 11 nominees were rejected in...

nomination was the first Supreme Court nomination to be rejected by the Senate; the most recent nomination to be voted down was that of Robert Bork in...

highest opposition (42%) of any of the eleven Supreme Court nominees Gallup has polled about since Robert Bork in 1987. The interdenominational National Council...

the court. Conservative commentator David Frum castigated the selection as an "unforced error", and Robert Bork (himself a failed Supreme Court nominee)...

Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by Ronald Reagan even before his presidency officially began...

Sotomayor nomination was due to their grievances over the history of federal judicial nomination battles going back to the 1987 Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination...

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...

Act. He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden ran...

13, 2010 Biskupic 2009, pp. 104–09. Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court the following year, but his nomination was rejected by the Senate. Toobin...

Committee. A nomination of a justice to the Supreme Court was not anywhere near as contentious until the unsuccessful 1987 nomination of Robert Bork. A number...

the Chappaquiddick incident, the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination, and the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. In February 2010, Breitbart received...

the switch" and botching the handling of Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination, adding that Bork's nomination had convinced him that the Reagan administration...

and the most recent time was the October 23, 1987 vote on the nomination of Robert Bork. In March 1917, the procedure of a cloture vote was introduced...

Sandra Day O'Connor. Powell retired in 1987; President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork was defeated by the Senate, and his second nominee, Douglas H...

the nominations were rejected by the United States Senate. Nixon's failed Supreme Court nominations were the first since Herbert Hoover's nomination of...

Simpson voted in favor of the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination and Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. In...

override President Reagan's veto). Heinz voted in favor of the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination. He was elected chairman of the National Republican Senatorial...

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Alito's nomination was confirmed by a 58–42...

Senate confirmation hearings in 1987 about the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination, arguing that Bork's stand on the limitation of rights in the Constitution...

The Supreme Court of Israel (Hebrew: בֵּית הַמִּשְׁפָּט הָעֶלְיוֹן, romanized: Bet HaMishpat HaElyon, Hebrew acronym Bagatz; Arabic: المحكمة العليا,...

chairing the national coalition that helped defeat the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork. Neas served as executive director of the Leadership Conference...

October 23, 1987: The Senate rejected the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the United States Supreme Court on a vote of 42-58 November 18, 1987: Iran–Contra...

the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal judiciary of the United States...

States Court of Appeals judge Robert Bork. Published three years after the U. S. Senate rejected Bork's nomination to the United States Supreme Court, the...

that promise, but President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork for the Supreme Court in 1987; his nomination nevertheless failed in the Senate. The Ethics in Government...