Trivia

Professor of law at Yale University (1962-1973, 1977-1981).

U.S. Solicitor General (1973-1977).

Judge for federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1982-1988).

He was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, but the nomination was rejected by the Senate on a 58-42 vote after extraordinarily contentious hearings.

He was responsible for conducting what it was known as the "Saturday Night Massacre" on the evening of October 20, 1973, when president Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox who was investigating the Watergate scandal. When Attorney General Elliot Richardson refused to carry out the order and resigned in protest, and then Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus also resigned without firing Cox, Bork followed Nixon's order and fired Cox. Later on, Nixon promised to nominate Bork for the Supreme Court but with his resignation from office in the following year he never fulfilled with his intent.

During his U.S. Supreme Court nomination in 1987, a reporter got access to Bork's video rental history and leaked to the press. The incident led to the enactment of the Video Privacy Protection Act in 1988. The act was created to prevent what it refers to as "wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records (or similar audio visual materials, to cover items such as video games and the future DVD format).

As for Bork's video history, it contains a total of 74 titles which includes Un jour aux courses (1937), La Chevauchée fantastique (1939), Citizen Kane (1941), Un jour à New-York (1949), L'homme qui en savait trop (1956), Charade (1963), La Horde sauvage (1969), Un homme pour l'éternité (1966), The Who: The Kids Are Alright (1979), Shining (1980), L'étoffe des héros (1983), Le baiser de la femme-araignée (1985), Y a-t-il quelqu'un pour tuer ma femme ? (1986), among other classic films.