Can you point me to any other SCOTUS nominee who has a verb named after him or her in the Webster dictionary based on their treatment during confirmation? I suppose we may one day see the term “garlanded” but there is a reason “borked” has a connotation of SCOTUS political character assassination.
"Bork" is a verb for character assassination thanks to conservative political outlets using it as such in editorials with the first example found prior to the close of the hearing. It became so popular amongst conservatives writers bitter about the influence of people in a coordinated campaign pointing out Borks history opposing things such as civil rights, womens rights and political speech led to entering the political lexicon.
Do I really need to go further and explain this all out for you or do you want to continue to play this game?
The Republicans got their hopes up that their precious Federalist society pipeline was bullet proof and got called out for putting forth an asshole simply because on paper he seemed like he would sail through. When Bork's actual history inspired tons of people to step up and launch a coordinated campaign to prevent him from getting in.
Conservative played victim and blamed those worried about Bork's record than actually blaming Borks record.
I will grant you 1 college credit for this lesson but you need to paypal me tuition and fees