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After nearly two decades of living on the relatively modest salary of a law professor and civil servant, Robert Bork went on a spending spree in 1981. Flush with the promise of a partnership worth $400,000 annually in the Washington office of the firm of Kirkland & Ellis, Bork purchased a new BMW sedan and a $500,000 house in the District's fashionable Kent neighborhood. The day he moved into his new home, however, Attorney General William French Smith made him an offer he could not refuse: a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...
...more reason for Bork's sense of frustration when Ronald Reagan passed him over for a Supreme Court nomination last year, choosing Antonin Scalia, Bork's close friend and former appellate-court colleague. Seeing that Bork was bored by much of the appeals-court work, friends suspected that he was ready to quit the bench. But that restlessness vanished abruptly last week when Robert Heron Bork, 60, finally was handed his long awaited opportunity...
...inform him of Powell's decision until 9:35 Friday morning, less than an hour before Rehnquist announced the news from the bench on the last day of the court's current term. Reagan and a few top aides immediately began discussing names. The two leading candidates were Robert Bork, a federal appeals-court judge in the District of Columbia, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Reagan expressed a desire to get the advice of Attorney General $ Edwin Meese, who happened to be traveling, and further discussion was put off until Monday...
...appeals judge, Scalia has been almost gratuitously antipress. He dissented from an opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations...
...contest to fill Rehnquist's seat quickly narrowed to Scalia and a fellow judge on the appeals court in Washington, Robert Bork. A respected former Yale Law School professor, Bork had been lured from a lucrative law- firm job in Washington to the federal bench with strong hints from the Administration that he would be first in line for the next available spot on the court. But Bork carries some political baggage: as acting Attorney General ! in 1973, he obeyed Nixon's order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Elliot Richardson had resigned as Attorney General rather than fire...