A Force Against Judicial Activism; Clash of Ideas Stimulates Outspoken Former Marine, Professor

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 2, 1987| Author: Al Kamen | Copyright information

U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Heron Bork, President Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court, is one of the principal intellectual architects of the conservative assault pursued by the administration against liberal judicial activism.

The burly, bearded former Marine, a heavy smoker who has been known to enjoy a martini at lunch, does not fit the stereotype of the Ivy League professor he once was. But ideas, and the clash of them, have always fascinated him.

In his writings, ...

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