Robert Bork Quotes

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather tha...

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When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and whi...

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It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likel...

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential an...

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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equali...

Robert Bork

Former United States Solicitor General

Born: 1927-03-01

Died: 2012-12-19

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. He served as a Yale Law School professor, the United States Solicitor General, the Acting United States Attorney General, and as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court, but the United States Senate rejected his nomination. Bork had more success as an antitrust scholar, where his once-idiosyncratic view that antitrust law should focus on maximizing consumer welfare has come to dominate American legal thinking on the subject.More