Robert Bork/Definition

Attorney and jurist; professor at the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the Tad and Diane Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute; American Enterprise Institute 1988-2003; Solicitor General from 1973 to 1977; acting U.S. Attorney General from 1973 to 1974; and Circuit Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982 to 1988; nominated by Ronald Reagan, but was not confirmed as an associate justice, Supreme Court of the United States