Justice Abe Fortas, and Lyndon Johnson. By June 1968, Nixon, having swept his primaries, was cruising to the nomination and probable victory in November. The establishment was aghast. Warren’s ...

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 ...

When Abe Fortas was nominated last summer as Chief Justice of the U.S., few doubted that he would win swift approval. He had, after all, already been before the Senate and been confirmed as an ...

he sought to do the impossible—remove a sitting justice to make room for his close friend and counselor, Abe Fortas. Fortas ...

One justice, Abe Fortas, resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 amid a controversy over receiving $20,000 from a Wall Street financier. An impeachment, though, has only happened once, to Justice ...

When Abe Fortas put out his "little book" on civil ... The Court, Zinn says, must "stand for the law sometimes, for justice always." This is an exciting, romantic, beautiful idea: that we might ...

The Judicial-Confirmation Standings as the Senate Returns to Work 1969—Mired in scandal, Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas announces his resignation from the Court. Fortas’s resignation comes ...

First, Justice Abe Fortas resigned from the High Court after he was accused of unethical financial dealings with a foundation setup by financier Louis Wolfson. Chief Justice Earl Warren retired in ...

To accomplish this task, he sought to do the impossible—remove a sitting justice to make room for his close friend and counselor, Abe Fortas. Fortas was a brilliant attorney renowned for winning the ...