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Considers nominations of Associate Justice Abe Fortas, to be Chief Justice and Homer Thornberry, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Hearing examines Presidential appointment powers of Supreme Court Justices.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 1968
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Considers nominations of Associate Justice Abe Fortas, to be Chief Justice and Homer Thornberry, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Hearing examines Presidential appointment powers of Supreme Court Justices.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
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Page : 1834 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 1968
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Mark Atwood Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1009187384
In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments—protecting civil rights, fighting poverty, expanding access to medical care, lowering barriers to immigration—as well as his struggles in Vietnam and his difficulty responding to other challenges in an era of declining US influence on the global stage. Sweeping and influential, LBJ's America probes the ways in which the accomplishments, setbacks, controversies and crises of 1963 to 1969 laid the foundations of contemporary America and set the stage for our own era of policy debates, political contention, distrust of government, and hyper-partisanship.
Author : Laura Kalman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0199967776
The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Presidents Johnson and Nixon attempted to dominate the Court and alter its course. Using newly released--and consistently entertaining--recordings of Lyndon Johnson's and Richard Nixon's telephone conversations, she roots their efforts to mold the Court in their desire to protect their Presidencies. The fierce ideological battles--between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches--that ensued transformed the meaning of the Warren Court in American memory. Despite the fact that the Court's decisions generally reflected public opinion, the surrounding debate calcified the image of the Warren Court as activist and liberal. Abe Fortas's embarrassing fall and Nixon's campaign against liberal justices helped make the term "activist Warren Court" totemic for liberals and conservatives alike. The fear of a liberal court has changed the appointment process forever, Kalman argues. Drawing from sources in the Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton presidential libraries, as well as the justices' papers, she shows how the desire to avoid another Warren Court has politicized appointments by an order of magnitude. Among other things, presidents now almost never nominate politicians as Supreme Court justices (another response to Warren, who had been the governor of California). Sophisticated, lively, and attuned to the ironies of history, The Long Reach of the Sixties is essential reading for all students of the modern Court and U.S. political history.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Richard Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190656964
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Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1108140572
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ's refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ's 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.
Author : Michal R. Belknap
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781570035630
In The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953-1969, Michal Belknap recounts the eventful history of the Warren Court. Chief Justice Earl Warren's sixteen years on the bench were among the most dramatic, productive, and controversial in the history of the Supreme Court. Warren's tenure saw the Court render decisions that are still hotly debated today. Its rulings addressed such issues as school desegregation, separation of church and state, and freedom of expression.