Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IN a sense, Abe Fortas prejudged himself last year in that characteristically pithy statement on civil disobedience.
Last week, having violated society's mandate, Fortas reluctantly accepted its verdict by resigning from the U.S. Supreme Court. He thus became the only man in the history of the Republic to be forced from the high bench.
Fortas really had little choice: he had either to resign or to face almost certain impeachment by the House of Representatives. Though he attempted to dismiss his financial dealings with the Wolfson Family Foundation as routine and blameless, the pressure from both Congress and the Nixon Administration became severe and...
Neither message more than hinted at the tension that had hung over the Capital for eleven days. The relief in Washington was audible. New York's Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which would have initiated impeachment, said that he felt "like a woman who has just...
In a May 4 statement explaining the fee, Fortas said it was offered by the Wolfson foundation in 1966 "in the hope that I would find time and could undertake consistently with my court obligations, research functions, studies, and writings, connected with the work of the foundation. Concluding that I...