Robert Heron 'Bob' Bork (1927-2012) was a prominent American legal scholar, judge, conservative intellectual, and nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II before earning his bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster (1948) and Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School (1953). Bork began his legal career in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, where he developed influential theories on antitrust law, particularly the Consumer Welfare Standard, which emphasized economic efficiency in merger and monopoly cases. His scholarly work applying economic analysis to antitrust profoundly shaped judicial and academic understandings of competition law. In the 1960s, he joined the faculty at Yale Law School (1962-1982), becoming the Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law and emerging as a leading advocate for originalism—a judicial philosophy interpreting the Constitution based on its original meaning, which became a cornerstone of the conservative legal movement. Bork served as Solicitor General of the United States (1973) and, during the Watergate scandal, as Acting Attorney General after the 'Saturday Night Massacre,' where he controversially fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox at President Nixon's direction. From 1982 to 1988, he served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, known for his rigorous originalist opinions. His 1987 Supreme Court nomination by President Ronald Reagan sparked intense partisan debate, with opponents portraying him as an extremist threat to civil rights, privacy, and reproductive freedoms. The Senate rejected his nomination by a 58-42 vote—the first such rejection since 1930—an event dubbed 'borking,' which galvanized the conservative legal movement and popularized the term for aggressive political attacks on nominees. After leaving the bench, Bork continued as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, authored books like 'The Tempting of America' (1990) critiquing judicial activism, and influenced the rise of originalism through mentorship and writings until his death in 2012 from complications related to heart disease.