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 ...

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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 article (pp. 32-37) on Justice Fortas’s connections to “financial manipulator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 over accusations of financial misconduct. Courts experts told Insider Justice ...

For congressional opponents of the Supreme Court, it was a moment of high satisfaction. Never before had a Chief Justice-designate been grilled by a Senate committee. Never before had there been so ...

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. —Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (1941-54). The third branch of the U.S. Government is intimate, ...

Despite an endless stream of bombshells, there was little novelty in the noxious confirmation fights involving Merrick Garland, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh over the last three years. They ...

In 1968, then-Chief Justice Earl Warren went to the White House to let President Lyndon B. Johnson know that he was planning to retire. He explained that he wanted to be replaced by a liberal. Johnson ...

Abe Fortas was nominated today as Chief Justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren who resigned last week. Mr. Fortas, 58, who was named an Associate Justice in June, 1966, is the fifth Jew ...

President Johnson today announced the appointment of Abe Fortas as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Arthur J. Goldberg. Mr. Fortas, a prominent ...

Journal Editorial Report: 'Ethics' is the latest weapon against the Court's independence. Images: Reuters/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Abe Fortas has been in the news of late—a feat for someone ...