On July 1, 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Lewis F. Powell Jr., who had earlier announced his reti
President Ronald Reagan announces from the White House Press Room Bork's nomination on July 1, 1987
Senator Bob Graham of Florida presiding over the Senate during the vote on Bork's nomination
Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American retired politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United
Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination
…on the Bork nomination: "We will fight it all the way – until hell freezes over, and then we'll skate across on the ice." A brief was prepared for Joe Biden, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the Biden Report. Bork later said in his book The Tempting of America that the report "so thoroughly…
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Biden in 1952; at age 10
Biden pictured by Syracuse University in 1968
Secretary of the Senate Francis R. Valeo swearing in Biden into the Senate on January 5, 1973