Reagan Nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court

The eponymous Borking started, almost immediately in fact, a mere 45 minutes after Bork's nomination. Senator Ted Kennedy made a televised speech which included the statement: 'Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions' The Senate vote on him was the third worst defeat on record and people said that Bork had been borked by disinformation or false claims of racist sexist principles. But Bork may have been borker by the dower way he represented himself and his originalist views during the 12 days of confirmation hearings presided over by Joe Biden.