Word: leadingâ
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...nomination of Fortas to succeed Earl Warren was surprising only in its predictability. A close friend and adviser, whom Johnson had named to take Arthur Goldberg's place in 1965, Fortas has distinguished himself in three Sessions on the Supreme Court, closely following?and to an increasing degree leading???the activist bloc that has dominated the Warren court for the past 15 years. If he was not a surprise, he was, at least in one way, unique. The fifth Jew to sit on the bench?the others were Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter and Goldberg?he would...
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