Robert Bork, whose failed nomination to replace Lewis Powell on the U.S. Supreme Court is widely described as a turning point in the history of the nominations process, died yesterday in Washington, D.C. A former Solicitor General, antitrust scholar, celebrated "originalist," and law school professor (his students included Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anita Hill, Robert Reich, Jerry Brown, and John Bolton), Bork was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, who turned to Anthony Kennedy when Bork's nomination was blocked in the Senate. C-Span has the entire week of testimony and transcriptions in its video archive. Above, looking like Robert Redford, then University of Michigan Law School dean Lee Bollinger testifies against Bork's nomination before a Senate Committee presided over by Joe Biden, with hair.
