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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...
Future Justice or no, Ely probably need not worry about posterity. As a Yale law student, he helped future Court Justice Abe Fortas win the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, in which the Court declared that indigents have the constitutional rights to counsel at trials. He did a stint on...
Lyndon Johnson leaps to mind. He was a product of the tumultuous Roosevelt years, when the court was more enemy than friend. The goal was to get enough of the old gang aboard to have the court with you instead of against you. A molder of men, Johnson knew how...