When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

On December 15 2007 Bork endorsed Mitt Romney for President. Advocacy of originalism
Bork was best known for his theory that the only way to reconcile the role of the judiciary in the U.

Bork served as a Yale Law School professor Solicitor General Acting Attorney General and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987 he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan but the Senate rejected his nomination.