To: Fishtalk
LBJ was a lame duck and so faced no political retaliation. Fortas was already on the SCOTUS, his nomination was as Chief Justice. He had no majority support and his nomination was defeated after cloture due to conflicts of interest.
Leahy invoking King George III and starting to shout. Zzzzz.
837 posted on
05/18/2005 8:28:57 AM PDT by
LisaFab
To: LisaFab
LBJ was a lame duck and so faced no political retaliation. Fortas was already on the SCOTUS, his nomination was as Chief Justice. He had no majority support and his nomination was defeated after cloture due to conflicts of interest. Again, thanks for the info. I am saving all of this to update husband. Now somebody update the Dems.
858 posted on
05/18/2005 8:32:20 AM PDT by
Fishtalk
(Pop Culture and Political Pundit-http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
To: LisaFab
Great quick synopsis of the Abe Fortas non-filibuster.
940 posted on
05/18/2005 8:43:20 AM PDT by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson