Word: earls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of President Johnson's fondness for unexpected appointments, the nomination of Fortas to succeed Earl Warren was surprising only in its predictability. A close friend and adviser, whom Johnson had named to take Arthur Goldberg's place in 1965, Fortas has distinguished himself in three Sessions on the Supreme Court, closely following?and to an increasing degree leading?the activist bloc that has dominated the Warren court for the past 15 years. If he was not a surprise, he was, at least in one way, unique. The fifth Jew to sit on the bench?the others were Louis Brandeis...
...less than seven more months, and the President's close friend and confidant to boot. The appointment smacked of "cronyism at its worst," said Michigan's Robert Griffin, "and everybody knows it." The charge of cronyism was reinforced by the fact that, to fill the vacancy left by Earl Warren's retirement and Fortas' move up, Lyndon Johnson appointed his old friend and fellow Texan, Homer Thornberry (see box, page...
...special session until his nominations are approved. Obtaining their seats only through cloture or a special session would, however, be something of a humiliation for Fortas and Thornberry. The President and his nominees thus have some cause for concern. There is at least a possibility, says Mansfield, that Earl Warren might have to delay his retirement...
Citizen & State. Asked by the court in 1962 to bring before it the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826 at the Florida State Prison, Fortas, even as a private lawyer, was instrumental in shaping the decision that guaranteed any indigent defendant a court-appointed lawyer. Gideon was more than a case; it became an article of faith. As a member of the court, Fortas has supported other decisions that have radically broadened the rights of defendants. "We're not just dealing with the criminal and society," he once told an attorney who was arguing for the police point...
Thus, in an unsworn statement, the man whom the U.S. Government claims is James Earl Ray battled last week in London against extradition to face a murder charge in Tennessee. "Some of the [Government] testimony is false," he stated in a high-pitched Southern-accented voice. Ramon George Sneyd objected in particular to a British detective's testimony that when he was arrested on June 8 he blurted: "Oh God! I feel so trapped...