When Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas requested that President Johnson withdraw his name from nomination as Chief Justice, the Washington Post editorialized solemnly: "The manner of choosing Chief ...

So how did Supreme Court confirmation fights become the knock ... "Well before the term 'Borked'" entered our lexicon, "the nomination of Abe Fortas — already a sitting justice — to become ...

Announcer: The Supreme Court made its share of headlines in 1969, but their decisions didn’t account for as many of the headlines as the individual justices did. First, Justice Abe Fortas ...

In an excellent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled “The False Abe Fortas Analogy ... was a repeat Supreme Court litigant…. After Johnson appointed Fortas to the high court in 1965 ...

When Abe Fortas put out his "little book" on civil ... which deal with Fortas' smug complacency over the role of the Supreme Court in contemporary American life: How wonderful it is [Fortas ...

Sooner or later, the Supreme ... court had not gone far enough in protecting freedom of expression. Justice Harlan thought it had gone too far in immunizing careless reporting. Justice Abe Fortas ...

The Democrats’ drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court—a ... Justice Abe Fortas, and Lyndon Johnson. By June 1968, Nixon, having ...

1969—Mired in scandal, Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas announces his resignation from the Court. Fortas’s resignation comes less than a year after President Lyndon B. Johnson’s unsuccessful ...