Word: fortases
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In fact, nominees have not succeeded in winning confirmation by the Senate on 27 occasions -- nearly 20% of the total -- many times for purely political reasons. The first rejection involved John Rutledge, George Washington's choice for Chief Justice, turned down because of his opposition to the Jay Treaty with...
The Justices had little in the court's past to guide them. In 1954 they appointed a special counsel when a challenge to the Virgin Islands' lenient divorce laws struck them as halfhearted. And the court has occasionally appointed lawyers for indigent or inadequately represented litigants, as it...
WHEN PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Abe Fortas in mid-1968 to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States, he had no idea of the controversy he would stir up. But at Fortas confirmation hearings, senators charged that Fortas--a presidential adviser who LBJ had appointed an...
America has never responded well to justices who appear to have overstepped the bounds of judicial propriety. The nation has developed an elaborate network of standards to limit judges off-the-courts behavior. Those who publicly transgress those unwritten bounds at the very least lose their legitimacy: the less fortunate...
DIED. Abe Fortas, 71, prominent Washington lawyer, shrewd political adviser and former Justice of the Supreme Court; of a ruptured aorta; in Washington, D.C. Fortas was noted for his superlative legal craftsmanship, which also became a hallmark of the influential law firm he helped found, now known as Arnold & Porter...