Word: appointment
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...stroke confined him to a wheelchair. His colleagues delayed any case that Douglas could decide with a tie-breaking vote, but Douglas refused to leave the bench. He was determined, he told a friend, to stay on the court until a Democratic President was elected who could appoint his successor. But his pain became so unbearable that he could no longer sit through oral arguments, and in November 1975 he reluctantly retired...