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Author | : Laura Kalman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780300046694 |
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Abe Fortas was a New Dealer, a sub-cabinet official, the founder of an eminent Washington law firm, a close adviser to Lyndon Johnson, and a Supreme Court justice. Nominated by Johnson to be Chief Justice, he was rejected by Congress and resigned from the Court early in the Nixon administration under a cloud of impending scandal. This book tells his dramatic story.
Author | : Laura Kalman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300173697 |
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An engrossing intellectual biography... Kalman has set forth the bright and the dark sides of Abe Fortas in a well written, thoughtful biography that is a significant contribution to the literature on recent American history.
Author | : Bruce Allen Murphy |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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In 1965, liberals rejoiced when Abe Fortas was appointed to the Supreme Court by his friend Lyndon Baines Johnson. Three years later, liberals rejoiced again when he was nominated as Chief Justice. But within days, he was forced to resign. The answers to the mystery surrounding his downfall will startle readers. 8 pages of photos.
Author | : David G. Dalin |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1512600148 |
Download Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan. David Dalin discusses the relationship that these Jewish justices have had with the presidents who appointed them, and given the judges' Jewish background, investigates the antisemitism some of the justices encountered in their ascent within the legal profession before their appointment, as well as the role that antisemitism played in the attendant political debates and Senate confirmation battles. Other topics and themes include the changing role of Jews within the American legal profession and the views and judicial opinions of each of the justices on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the death penalty, the right to privacy, gender equality, and the rights of criminal defendants, among other issues.
Author | : United States. Supreme Court |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Judges |
ISBN | : |
Download In Memoriam, Honorable Abe Fortas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John W. Dean |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0743229797 |
Download The Rehnquist Choice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy.
Author | : Bernard Schwartz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 853 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Judges |
ISBN | : 9780814778258 |
Download Super Chief, Earl Warren and His Supreme Court Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Anthony Lewis |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030780528X |
Download Gideon's Trumpet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.
Author | : Laura Kalman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199967776 |
Download The Long Reach of the Sixties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Presidents Johnson and Nixon attempted to dominate the Court and alter its course. Using newly released--and consistently entertaining--recordings of Lyndon Johnson's and Richard Nixon's telephone conversations, she roots their efforts to mold the Court in their desire to protect their Presidencies. The fierce ideological battles--between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches--that ensued transformed the meaning of the Warren Court in American memory. Despite the fact that the Court's decisions generally reflected public opinion, the surrounding debate calcified the image of the Warren Court as activist and liberal. Abe Fortas's embarrassing fall and Nixon's campaign against liberal justices helped make the term "activist Warren Court" totemic for liberals and conservatives alike. The fear of a liberal court has changed the appointment process forever, Kalman argues. Drawing from sources in the Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton presidential libraries, as well as the justices' papers, she shows how the desire to avoid another Warren Court has politicized appointments by an order of magnitude. Among other things, presidents now almost never nominate politicians as Supreme Court justices (another response to Warren, who had been the governor of California). Sophisticated, lively, and attuned to the ironies of history, The Long Reach of the Sixties is essential reading for all students of the modern Court and U.S. political history.
Author | : Michael Bobelian |
Publisher | : Schaffner Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781943156665 |
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"'1968: That moment began the politicization of the confirmation process and turned it into the ugly ritual we know too well'. Faced with the pending resignation of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court's longtime liberal kingpin, President Lyndon Johnson named his longtime adviser Abe Fortas to become Warren's successor. What Washington pundits believed would be a routine confirmation instead ignited a fractious war between liberals and conservatives eager to seize control of the judicial body. Michael Bobelian reveals the extent of the unprecedented machinations perpetrated to capture the Court, including LBJ's removal of two justices to make room for his favorites, the Senate's first filibuster against a Court nominee, Strom Thurmond's airing of pornographic movies to showcase Fortas's purported moral turpitude, and Richard Nixon who, in his zeal to win the presidency, stoked the fires of hatred and bigotry to transform the Court into a political weapon."--