Robert Bork, Polarizing High Court Nominee, Dies

Famed conservative jurist died of heart complications
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 19, 2012 9:07 AM CST
Robert Bork, Polarizing High Court Nominee, Dies
In this Aug. 23, 2000 file photo, Robert Bork speaks in Ann Arbor, Mich.   (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Robert Bork, the conservative judge whose 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court sparked a political brawl and ended in failure, died today of heart complications, reports Fox News. He was 85. Bork was a solicitor general who became acting attorney general under Richard Nixon during the height of the Watergate scandal. "He was, simply, a great jurist and an exceptional man," writes Andrew McCarthy at the National Review. (More Robert Bork stories.)

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