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Originally posted by techweenie
W nominating her is a lot like LBJ nominating Abe Fortas, who was far better qualified, but also was a close friend & attorney to LBJ. The Republicans filibustered and did not approve his appointment to the SC.
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Fortas was a lot different than W's pick...
As a sitting justice, he regularly attended White House staff meetings; he briefed the president on secret Court deliberations; and, on behalf of the president, he pressured senators who opposed the war in Vietnam. When the Judiciary Committee revealed that Fortas received a privately funded stipend (while a sitting Justice), equivalent to 40 percent of his Court salary, to teach an American University summer course -- parenthetical mine
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