This week, Dan chats with Robert Bork. Robert Bork (1927–2012) was a former federal judge, a rejected Supreme Court nominee, and a staunch Republican and conservative legal scholar who advocated an originalist reading of the First Amendment. Bork received his law degree from the University of Chicago and practiced law in Chicago until 1962, when he joined the faculty of Yale Law School. He served as solicitor general under President Richard Nixon in 1973 and in October of that year famously dismissed Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox—who was engaged in an effort to force the White House to turn over tapes of conversations in the Oval Office—after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy resigned rather than fire Cox.
