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Apr 7, 1982 · April 6, 1982 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Abe Fortas, 71, who resigned as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1969 in the face of accusations of impropriety that scarred a brilliant career in ...
Jan 26, 2022 · The justice who resigned was Abe Fortas, who had been a President Lyndon B. Johnson nominee. Fortas stepped down in May 1969, four months after Richard Nixon took office as president. Fortas’s ...
05/15/2008 04:12 AM EDT. On this day in 1969, Abe Fortas, denying he had done anything wrong, resigned from the Supreme Court to return to private law practice. In stepping down, Fortas became the ...
FORTAS, Abraham ("Abe") ( b. 19 June 1910 in Memphis, Tennessee; d. 5 April 1982 in Washington, D.C.), leading civil libertarian who served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969, until charges of misdeeds forced him to resign. Fortas, the youngest of five children of William Fortas, a cabinetmaker, and Ray Berson ...
Feb 8, 2017 · During the confirmation process it came to light that money Fortas had received for teaching engagements at the Washington College of Law, a sum of $15,000, did not come from the school, but was ...
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Abe Fortas was an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969. Fortas was born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 19, 1910. His parents, Woolfe (who later changed his first name to William) and Rachel Berzansky, were born in Russia and Lithuania, respectively. The Fortases were part of the massive immigration to the United States ...
Abe Fortas letter and statements, 1968. 4 items; material concerning Fortas's nomination to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Yale University Sterling Memorial Library New Haven, Conn. Abe Fortas papers, 1935-1983.
