Word: fortases
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"Will you trust my judgment, Mr. Fortas?", asked the salesman at Welch's Hardware Store in Westport, Conn. Dubiously, the Chief Justice-designate of the U.S. fingered the new, chemically treated dustcloth, examining it carefully by sight and feel. Finally, aware perhaps that this was a matter beyond his...
The morning in town was followed by an afternoon at the rambling summer house atop Minute Man Hill, which has an enormous veranda with a view of Long Island Sound when the sun breaks through the mists. Fortas kept busy scrubbing the winter's grit off the windows. Now...
The scene was a long way from the day next October when Fortas, given Senate approval, will take his place in the center of the Supreme Court bench. Yet, even now, as he talked with Reporter Steele, the bench was never far from his mind.
He foresaw new challenges, new problems for the court-the Fortas court. "It was one thing to have enunciated great principles," Fortas says of the Warren era, which he admires greatly. "But it is another thing to make them come alive." There would be new concerns as the Justices explored...
The Justices of the Supreme Court, Fortas mused, are, in some respects, "nine emperors." A Chief Justice can neither coerce nor cajole his associates; he can do little more than recommend what actions they should take. They are the "mix in the carburetor"-a good court needs Justices from different...