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Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee , Fortas graduated from Rhodes College and Yale Law School .
President Lyndon Johnson introduces Abe Fortas (r) and John Chancellor (l) at a news conference at the White House in July 1965. The Chief Executive named Fortas, a longtime friend and Washington ...
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In 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed Warren E. Burger as the replacement for the retiring Earl Warren. Warren had attempted to retire in 1968, but President Lyndon B. Johnson's nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice was successfully filibustered by Senate Republicans. Fortas resigned from the court in 1969 following ...
Painting of Burger. In 1968, then-Chief Justice Earl Warren announced his retirement after 15 years on the Court, effective on the confirmation of his successor.President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated sitting Associate Justice Abe Fortas to be elevated to Chief Justice and nominated Homer Thornberry to take Fortas' Associate Justice seat, but a Senate filibuster blocked his confirmation.
Besides being personally disgusted by Douglas's lifestyle, Ford was also mindful that Douglas's protégé Abe Fortas was forced to resign because of ties to a similar foundation. [60] Fortas would later say that he "resigned to save Douglas," thinking that the dual investigations of himself and Douglas would stop with his resignation.
[2] Fortas was the first Chief Justice nominee ever to appear before the Senate, and he faced hostile questioning about his relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson sought to help Fortas win a majority vote, but only as a face-saving measure, according to Johnson aide Joseph Califano: "We won't withdraw the nomination. I won't do that to Abe."
In 1969 President Richard Nixon nominated Warren E. Burger to be the new Chief Justice of the United States after the retirement of Earl Warren. Burger was quickly confirmed. However, when in the same year, he nominated Clement Haynsworth for a vacancy created by the resignation of Abe Fortas, controversy ensued.