Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presiding over the court was Chief Justice Earl Warren, who as attorney general of California in 1942 had been vocal in demanding that Japanese-Americans be evacuated from their West Coast homes. On the bench was Justice Abe Fortas, who as wartime Under Secretary of the Interior had protested the...
Senate Pitfalls. Naturally, every President must consider whether the nominee is truly able and whether he will please key groups in the body politic. The nomination must enhance presidential prestige, win instant legal applause-and, occasionally, satisfy precedents established by earlier Chief Executives. The court now has a "Jewish seat...
Unique & Flexible. The opinion was glumly received. Justice Abe Fortas, in an unusually strong dissent, praised the merger as "unique," applauded the ICC for "flexibility" in its approach to Eastern railroad problems, and criticized his colleagues for "a reversion to the days of judicial negation of governmental action in the...
Clark's retirement (at full pay of $39,500) gives Lyndon Johnson the opportunity of making his second appointment (his first: Abe Fortas, generally pegged as a liberal) and the problem of deciding whether to seek someone with a philosophy similar to Clark's or to reinforce the...
Having gone that far, the court then proceeded to go another step farther. In a related decision, it held that Brooklyn Lawyer Samuel Spevack could not be disbarred for having exercised his right to be silent in an ambulance-chasing investigation. Did all this mean that public employees under investigation...