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News Alert: Robert Bork, conservative icon and judge, dies at 85

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Robert Bork, conservative icon and judge, dies at 85
The Washington Post Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:16:37 AM

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Robert Bork, conservative icon and judge, dies at 85

Robert H. Bork, the conservative jurist who fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the "Saturday Night Massacre" in 1973 and whose failed nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 sparked an enduring political schism over judicial nominations, died early Wednesday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington of complications from heart disease. He was 85.

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