Berating the U.S. Supreme Court used to be the fairly exclusive pastime of racists and other right-wing extremists. Now it has become a more popular preoccupation. Many people who think that U.S.
Older readers may remember the brief Supreme Court tenure of Justice Abe Fortas, who was on the court from 1965 to 1969. He had been a law professor at Yale and gained prominence as counsel for ...
A Judicial Coup in Utah: A Response to Andy McCarthy Audio By Carbonatix In addition to excerpts from Ilya Shapiro’s Wall Street Journal op-ed, I am pleased to link to Life magazine’s May 9, 1969 ...
In a government under law, Chief Justice John Marshall observed in the early 19th century, a judge must be “perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and ...
Justice Clarence Thomas can still redeem himself. One of his predecessors, former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, showed the way. Caught in the midst of a financial scandal, Fortas did the decent ...
Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 over accusations of financial misconduct. Courts experts told Insider Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged misconduct appears far worse. But unlike Fortas ...
Abe Fortas became the first Supreme Court Justice to step down under threat of impeachment when he submitted a letter of resignation to Chief Justice Earl Warren May 14, 1969. The resignation, which ...