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Robert Bork, Judge Defeated in Supreme Court War, Dies at 85
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Robert Bork, the U.S. judge and legal scholar whose nomination to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan set off a battle for the judiciary that lived on long after the U.S. Senate rejected him, has died. He was 85.
He died this morning at Virginia Medical Center in Arlington, Virginia, said his son, Robert Jr. The cause was heart disease.