Word: fortases
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Day after day last week, Thurmond buttonholed his colleagues to watch the films in darkened Senate offices. One aide of Richard Nixon called it "the Fortas Film Festival." The Senators were not titillated but shocked, and they left the showings in a grim mood. The screenings apparently swayed some votes...
It mattered little that nobody really knew what Fortas thought about the films. The court judgment involving them was one of the many per curiam decisions, which do not require Justices to write their opinions. In an obscenity case, what is often at issue is not the merits or demerits...
Fortas' interpretations vary, depending on the case. In 1966, he voted with the 5-to-4 majority to uphold the conviction of Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg on grounds that he pandered to prurient interests by using overly suggestive advertising. But that did not make much of an impression upon...
Fat Free. Fortas was asked to appear before the committee for still another grilling last week, but he declined. Convinced that they had done sufficient damage to torpedo Fortas, the opposition forces on the committee agreed to send the matter to the Senate floor this week. There it will run...
Other questions about Fortas nagged the Senators. The objections to his role as Lyndon Johnson's backstairs adviser were heightened by reports that Fortas had substantially rewritten a first version of the President's 1966 State of the Union Message. Some Senators were also bothered by the fact...