Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Chief Justice was also worried, according to friends, that Richard Nixon, a man he heartily dislikes, would be elected President in November and fill the spot with a conservative.* Several Republican Senators, similarly convinced that Nixon would win in the fall, insisted that Johnson permit the next President to...
> By August, Democratic and Republican leaders decide that all the talk about new politics and the need for change has made all the principal contenders obsolete. In Miami Beach, the Republicans nominate Jacob Javits and Edward Brooke. In Chicago, the Democrats pick Abe Fortas and Carl Stokes. The big issue...
Cautious Hairsplitting. Speaking for the four dissenters, Justice Abe Fortas insisted that the court should not countenance a revolving jailhouse door for drunks, either. It was cruel and inhuman punishment, he said, to impose a criminal penalty on an alcoholic "who cannot resist the constant excessive consumption of alcohol and...
The court's new test for "standing" requires a taxpayer to contend that the statute under attack "exceeds specific constitutional limitations imposed upon the exercise of the congressional taxing and spending power." Which constitutional limitations did the court have in mind? The majority did not say. But Justice Fortas...
Pointing out parenthetically that many apparently secular books may be religious in their treatment of such subjects as evolution, the three dissenters. Justices Douglas, Fortas and Black, all heatedly argued that the First Amendment's rule was being badly compromised. Said Black: "It requires no prophet to foresee that...