Reagan tried to put Bork—then a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit—on the Supreme Court in 1987, but the Senate rejected him on a bipartisan basis as too extreme.
Reagan tried to put Bork—then a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit—on the Supreme Court in 1987, but the Senate rejected him on a bipartisan basis as too extreme.