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Abe Fortas was gone from the Supreme Court, and Associate Justice William O. Douglas had severed his questionable connection with the Albert B. Parvin Foundation, but the court remained enmeshed in controversy over ethics. This time Douglas provided the target.
Anticipating a full-blown judicial-ethics hearing on Capitol Hill, which might further denigrate the court, Chief Justice Earl Warren had called for the Judicial Conference of the U.S. to formulate a code of ethics and require disclosure of all federal judges' financial affairs. But Senate Majority Leader Mike...
In Burger's favor, the President said, was his position on crime and the Constitution, his experience as a judge and his ability to lead. Going for him also was the fact that he was not close to the President, either personally or politically. As a result of the Fortas...
Nixon insisted that the timing of the appointment had nothing to do with Fortas. He wanted his nominee to have ample opportunity to confer with Warren, but he did not want the Senate hearings to begin until the court had ended its current session. Some time in May was thus...
Tremors of the Fortas affair, of course, were still being felt as Burger stood in front of the TV cameras. As the result of questions about the court's integrity, Justice William O. Douglas, a court veteran of 30 years, resigned from the presidency of the Parvin Foundation from which...