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AMERICAN LAWYER, JUDGE, AND LEGAL SCHOLAR
Robert H. Bork; Borked; Robert Heron Bork; Mary Ellen Bork; Borking; Bork (verb); RH Bork; Bork, Robert; To bork; Bob Bork; Judge Robert Bork
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  • Bork explains why he agreed to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, 2008
  • Bork (right) with Reagan, 1987
  • Bork's official portrait, painted by Peter Even Egeli
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borked         
Broken, defunct, not working, screwed, dysfunctional, buggered, shafted, nackered, duff.
Also written b0rked.
Unf, my Windows machine is totally borked. It bluescreens immediately on boot.
borken Broken, busted.
I don't hear a dial tone. I think the phone's borken.
bork         
RUSSIAN HOME APPLIANCE COMPANY
BORK (company); BORK; Bork (Russian trademark)
To attack shamelessly, with no regard for the truth, and with total disregard for doing the right thing.
Word came into existence after the Democrat-controlled United States Senate voted not to confirm Robert Bork's nomination (by President George Herbert Walker Bush) for the Supreme Court.
The man held what until then had would have been considered the necessary credentials, so why wasn't his nomination confirmed?
It was certainly not because he lacked the ability, the intellect, or the qualifications.
What he lacked was likeability and a liberal bent; he definitely didn't meet the Democrats' ideological criteria: he was most avowedly a conservative judge.
Democrats during the 1980s had come to the conclusion that they would never succeed in getting laws passed that would advance their liberal agenda.
Their solution (Thought up by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe and cohorts?): use whatever means necessary to stack the United States judicial system with liberal, activist judges, judges willing to make new law through their interpretations of the laws on the books.
In order for their plan to succeed, it was necessary to hold up judicial appointments as long as possible in the hopes that a Democrat would soon be returned to the Presidency - while concurrently claiming that they were trying to keep a Republican President from stacking the court with radical conservatives so far out of the mainstream as to be a threat to the nation's very existence.
The ploy remains in use today as many of President George W. Bush's judicial nominations languish without even a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
God forbid that the nominees actually get to the Senate floor for a vote - most would probably be confirmed.
If you're a liberal Democrat, you may choose to believe that today's Democrats are just doing to President Bush what yesterday's Republicans did to President Clinton.
The facts and the corresponding judicial appointment statistics belie any sound basis for such a claim.
A possible result: We have virtually no criminals in the United States today - just misunderstood, downtrodden members of society - people who committed their crimes because society made them do it.
Judicial nominee after judicial nominee gets borked by the Democrats.
Bork         
RUSSIAN HOME APPLIANCE COMPANY
BORK (company); BORK; Bork (Russian trademark)
To use a toilet plunger. Originating from the sound made when one uses a toilet plunger.
My little sister flushed her teddy bear down the toilet and I had to spend an hour borking to unclog it.

Wikipedia

Robert Bork

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as the solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A professor at Yale Law School by occupation, he was later acting U.S. attorney general and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Senate rejected his nomination after a highly contentious and highly publicized confirmation hearing.

Bork was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receiving both his undergraduate and legal education at the University of Chicago. After working at the law firms of Kirkland & Ellis and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, he served as a professor at Yale Law School. He became a prominent advocate of originalism, calling for judges to adhere to the original understanding of the United States Constitution. He also became an influential antitrust scholar, arguing that consumers often benefited from corporate mergers and that antitrust law should focus on consumer welfare rather than on ensuring competition. Bork wrote several notable books, including a scholarly work titled The Antitrust Paradox and a work of cultural criticism titled Slouching Towards Gomorrah.

From 1973 to 1977, he served as Solicitor General under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford, successfully arguing several cases before the Supreme Court. During the October 1973 Saturday Night Massacre, Bork became acting U.S. Attorney General after his superiors in the U.S. Justice Department chose to resign rather than fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating the Watergate scandal. Following an order from the President, Bork fired Cox, his first assignment as Acting Attorney General. Bork served as Acting Attorney General until January 4, 1974, and was succeeded by Ohio U.S. Senator William B. Saxbe.

In 1982, President Reagan appointed Bork to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, Reagan nominated Bork to the Supreme Court after Justice Lewis Powell announced his retirement. His nomination precipitated unprecedented media attention and efforts by interest groups to mobilize opposition to his confirmation, primarily due to his criticisms of the Warren and Burger courts' interpretations of the Constitution, especially of the First Amendment and the constitutional right to privacy, and his role in the Saturday Night Massacre. His nomination was ultimately rejected in the Senate, 42–58. The Supreme Court vacancy was eventually filled by another Reagan nominee, the far less conservative Anthony Kennedy. Bork subsequently resigned from his judgeship on the D.C. Circuit in 1988 and served as a professor at various institutions, including the George Mason University School of Law. He also advised presidential candidate Mitt Romney and was a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute prior to his death in 2012.

Examples of use of borked
1. This is the man to whom the expression "borked" can be traced.
2. But he knows that if he dares to say otherwise, he gets Borked.
3. "If borked means fulfilling your constitutional duty by protecting the rights and freedoms of the American people, then every senator should wear that as a badge of honor," says Stephanie Cutter, an aide to Sen.