Robert Bork
Robert Heron "Bob" Bork was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A law professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General from 1973 to 1974 and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
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Background
- Born in
- Pittsburgh
- Educated at
- University of Chicago Law SchoolHotchkiss School
- Awards
- 🏆 Francis Boyer Award
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"National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it prote…"
"Laurence Tribe's constitutional theory is difficult to describe, for it is protean and takes whatever form is necessary at the moment to reach a desired result."
"The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom i…"
"Booknotes interview with Bork on Slouching Toward Gomorrah, December 4, 1996."
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1927
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Birth2012
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