The Harvard Crimson6 年
The Fortas Reflex
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 ...
Time1 个月
The Senate: The Fortas Defeat
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 ...
How Liberal Blunders Handed the Right the Supreme Court
he sought to do the impossible—remove a sitting justice to make room for his close friend and counselor, Abe Fortas. Fortas ...
The Harvard Crimson6 年
Zinn V. Fortas
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 ...
来自MSN6 个月
Upside-down flag flew at Justice Alito’s home: What does it mean?
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 ...
National Review4 年
This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 14
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 ...