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The record: what sort of filibustering has taken place in the Senate, where judicial nominations are concerned?(CAPITOL HILL)
ONE of the most heated rhetorical battles in the war over Democratic judicial filibusters concerns the question of whether those filibusters are "unprecedented." Look in the Nexis database, and you'll find hundreds of examples of Republicans saying yes, the filibusters are unprecedented, and Democrats saying no, they're not.
One thing that can be said for certain is that if there is precedent for the Democrats' actions, there isn't much of it. For all the disagreement, the argument boils down to just three cases: the failed 1968 nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice of the United States and the successful Clinton-era nominations of Richard Paez and Marsha ...
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- Fortas.
- Magazine article from: National Review Roche, John P. December 9, 1988 700+ words
...tale of how a barefoot country boy, Abe Fortas, was psychologically raped by that monster...begin. But perhaps 1968-the year of Fortas's failure to achieve the Chief Justiceship...details of 1) Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas's role as close personal advisor to...
- WHAT TOPPLED ABE FORTAS? POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY IS A DETECTIVE STORY.(Perspective)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 31, 1988 700+ words
...Byline: Christopher Lehmann- Haupt "FORTAS: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court...biography" of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (1910-1981), Bruce Allen Murphy steps...so irresistibly in telling the story of Fortas' aborted appointment as chief justice...
- Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 29, 1988 700+ words
...comedy, is everything. In the end Abe Fortas did not have it. Nominated in 1968 by...be chief justice of the United States, Fortas arrived on Capitol Hill for his Senate...away from the liberal Democrats, of whom Fortas and the Supreme Court were symbols, towards...
- Spinning the Fortas filibuster.(EDITORIALS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 13, 2005 700+ words
...the elevation of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to chief justice of the U.S. Supreme...Republicans reply that the filibuster against Fortas was bipartisan. Indeed, 19 Democrats...filibuster was launched on Sept. 25 only after Fortas refused on Sept. 13 to appear before...
- Dishonest Abe; how LBJ's favorite Supreme Court justice became the prototype of...
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Lichtman, Allan J. December 1, 1990 700+ words
...rationalized or simply ignored. This is the Abe Fortas that emerges from the pages of Laura Kalman...interests and promote the public good. The Fortas story provides an inside perspective on...follows by just two years another lengthy Fortas biography, Bruce Allen Murphy's Fortas...
- Furor recalls Fortas case
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times William Hines September 16, 1986 700+ words
...Lyndon B. Johnson to make his friend Abe Fortas chief justice of the United States. History...the conservative Rehnquist, the liberal Fortas was an associate justice when a vacancy...year at the age of 78. Johnson nominated Fortas on June 26, 1968, and named an old Texas...
- Nice try. (Abe Fortas' nomination as Supreme Court Chief Justice) (column)
- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. October 23, 1987 700+ words
...And the bearing of this is of course Fortas-Bork. The argument of the liberals...1968, President Johnson nominated Abe Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice...minority that filibustered against Abe Fortas wanted to ask were roughly translatable...
- FORTAS mission need statement draft available. (Army unveils details of...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily April 6, 1993 700+ words
* FORTAS MISSION NEED STATEMENT DRAFT AVAILABLE...Observation Remote Target Acquisition System (FORTAS). The service is seeking industry comment...be useful in refining the requirement. FORTAS is an unmanned target acquisition system...
