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	Abe Fortas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abe Fortas (June 19, 1910 - April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.
		Abe Fortas acquired a life-long love for music from his father, who encouraged his playing the violin.
		Fortas and a team of attorneys from his firm spent months preparing the appellate brief, and won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court for Gideon.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Abe_Fortas (586 words)

	Abe Fortas
		Abe Fortas was born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 19, 1910.
		Fortas was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Memphis, although as a adult he was not a religious person.
		Fortas received the first check in January 1966, after joining the Court, and though he returned it in December, Fortas's actions were condemned as ethically improper.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/fortas.htm (945 words)

	Oyez: Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
		Abe Fortas was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of an immigrant cabinetmaker.
		Fortas provided behind-the-scenes advice to Democratic politicians for years prior to his appointment to the Court in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson.
		Fortas had represented Johnson when Johnson's eighty-four-vote victory in the 1948 Texas Democratic primary was challenged.
	www.oyez.org /justices/abe_fortas (213 words)

	Abe Fortas Summary
		Abe Fortas acquired a life-long love for music from his father, who encouraged his playing the violin, and was known in Memphis as "Fiddlin' Abe Fortas".
		Fortas signed a contract with Wolfson's foundation; in return for unspecified advice it was to pay Fortas $20,000 a year for the rest of Fortas's life (and then pay his widow for the rest of her life).
		In 2005 Abe Fortas again became a focus of controversy as the Republicans considered changing Senate rules to eliminate filibusters of judicial appointments, a plan referred to as the "nuclear option." Democrats cited the Fortas filibuster as a precedent for their more recent filibusters.
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	Abe Fortas
		Abe Fortas was born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 19, 1910.
		Fortas was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Memphis, although as a adult he was not a religious person.
		Although Fortas alternated between Yale and Washington for most of the rest of the 1930s, he left Yale permanently for a position in the Department of the Interior, where he eventually was named under secretary.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/fortas.html (945 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: ABE FORTAS
		Abe Fortas, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Memphis, the son of an English-born Orthodox Jew and cabinetmaker.
		Fortas was influenced by his law professor, William O. Douglas, with whom he would later work at the Securities and Exchange Commission and on the Supreme Court.
		Fortas authored the majority opinion in In Re Gault (1967), where the Court held that juveniles were entitled to the same procedural protections during juvenile criminal proceedings that applied to adult court proceedings.
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	Science Fair Projects - Abe Fortas
		Abe Fortas (June 19, 1910 - April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.
		Abe Fortas acquired a life-long love for music from his father, who encouraged his playing the violin, known in Memphis as "Fiddlin' Abe Fortas".
		Fortas and a team of attorneys from his firm spent months preparing the appellate brief, and won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court for Gideon.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Abe_Fortas (759 words)

	The Supreme Court Historical Society
		Abe Fortas was animated by a warmth, a compassion, a profound gravity that could be felt, that cannot be captured in words, but that made him who he was and whom we remember.
		Abe Fortas was a man of rare completeness—patron and practitioner of the arts, successful corporate lawyer and superb advocate, defender of the poor and the persecuted.
		Abe Fortas was not eager to accept appointment to the Court, but President Johnson styled the nomination as a call to "vital duty" and Fortas accepted.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_c.html (1664 words)

	Lyndon Johnson - Profile - Knover.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fortas I recall well when Lyndon Johnson nominated Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice and this was the context of the nomination.
		Abe Fortas, nominated by President Lyndon Johnson to head the Supreme Court, was defeated by a Republican filibuster in 1968 because of his activist stand on civil rights issues.
		However, the Abe Fortas case was atypical since it was revealed in hearings that Fortas kept President Lyndon Johnson informed of the secret deliberations of the Court and had accepted what seemed to be excessive and inappropriate private payments for teaching a summer course at American University.
	www.knover.com /Profile/lyndon_johnson/abe_fortas (844 words)

	FindLaw Constitutional Law Center: Supreme Court: Justices: Abe Fortas
		Abe Fortas was born on June 19, 1910 to Jewish parents, William Fortas and Ray Berson.
		Abe Fortas was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of an immigrant cabinetmaker.
		Fortas was admitted to the Connecticut state bar in 1934 and to the District of Columbia bar in 1945.
	supreme.courttv.findlaw.com /supreme_court/justices/pastjustices/fortas.html (514 words)

	Abe Fortas biography
		Abe Fortas was born on June 9, 1910 in Memphis, Tennessee to William and Ray (Berson) Fortas, Orthodox Jews who emigrated to the United States from England in the early 1900's.
		Upon his discharge, Fortas was named by President Harry Truman as advisor to the United States delegation at the organizational meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945 and at the meeting of the General Assembly in London in 1946.
		Fortas’ interest in education is reflected in his work as overseer of the College of the Virgin Islands and as a member of the visiting committee on the law school of the University of Chicago and of the advisory council of the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
	www.ca6.uscourts.gov /lib_hist/Courts/supreme/judges/af-bio.html (1856 words)

	Abe Fortas - MSN Encarta
		Abe Fortas (1910-82), American jurist and associate justice of the Supreme Court, born on June 19, 1910, in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Southwestern College in Memphis and Yale University, where he studied law.
		Confirmation by the U.S. Senate was blocked by a filibuster, and the nomination was withdrawn at the request of Fortas.
		In May 1969, Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court under pressure of public criticism of his outside financial interests, which were widely held to be inconsistent with the conduct expected of a member of the court.
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	Fortas, Abe: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		Abe Fortas served as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969.
		Fortas was born June 19, 1910, in Memphis, to English immigrant Jews.
		An outstanding student at Yale, Fortas became a protégé of WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS, a member of the school's faculty and a future Supreme Court justice.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/fortas-abe (166 words)

	The US Supreme Court: Abe Fortas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In June 1968 LBJ nominated the very liberal Fortas for promotion from Associate Justice to Chief Justice, to replace Earl Warren, who had announced that he was retiring effective on the confirmation of his successor.
		Fortas had initially been somewhat reluctant to accept the Supreme Court seat because of the great drop in income he would experience from his private law firm salary; the Wolfson money may have helped convince him.
		Fortas had also continued, during his time as an Associate Justice, to give LBJ political advice on a wide range of matters, including Vietnam This was viewed as inappropriate for a sitting Supreme Court justice.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/USA/us_supremecourtabefortas91002.html (449 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Murder-Suicide of Abe Fortas' Political Career
		Abe Fortas, for all the good that he did and all the brilliance he possessed, was not pristine.
		Fortas knew deep down that such a bending of the doctrine of separation of powers was not right, and though he never made such an admission, his omissions on the subject before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings show his own doubts.
		The murder of Abe Fortas was in many ways simply more testimony to the reality that no matter how corrupt our government, how illusory our democracy, the myth is too strong to be discarded and accountability will ulitmately catch up with fugitives from it.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=223315 (1402 words)

	NPR : A History of Conflict in High Court Appointments
		Fortas asked that his name be removed from consideration after his supporters were defeated in a cloture motion to end debate.
		Fortas was to receive an annual sum from Wolfson's foundation for "consulting" that totaled more than half his yearly salary from the Supreme Court.
		Fortas ended his relationship with the foundation within six months and returned the initial fee, but the original contract was perceived as a payoff nonetheless.
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	Abe Fortas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fortas, Abe (1910-82), American jurist and associate justice of the Supreme Court, born on June 19, 1910, in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at...
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	AllRefer.com - Abe Fortas (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Abe Fortas[fOr´tus] Pronunciation Key, 1910–82, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1965–69), b.
		In 1968, President Johnson nominated Fortas as chief justice of the United States; Republicans and Southern Democrats held a Senate filibuster against the nomination, causing President Johnson to withdraw Fortas's nomination.
		The following year, Fortas resigned from the court after it was revealed that he had, while on the bench, accepted $20,000 from a private foundation; the money was part of a life stipend to Fortas by the foundation.
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	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Hunting for Clues to the Downfall of Abe Fortas - New York Times
		Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice By Bruce Allen Murphy Illustrated.
		The objection to Abe Fortas as Warren's successor was initially political and ideological.
		To begin with, there's the overall structure of ''Fortas,'' which is cast not as the history of a political power shift but rather as a detective story in which crimes are committed and detected and punishments are inflicted on the perpetrator.
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	Abe Fortas at AllExperts
		Abe Fortas (June 19, 1910 â" April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.
		Fortas commuted between New Haven and Washington both teaching at Yale and advising the SEC.
		However, the Warren Court's Constitutional jurisprudence had angered many conservative members of the United States Senate, and the nomination of Fortas, who was generally a reliable liberal vote on the Court, provided the first opportunity for these senators to register their disenchantment with the direction of the Court.
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	Architects of Gideon: Remembering Abe Fortas and Hugo Black
		Fortas, who was then a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C., was appointed by the Supreme Court to represent Clarence Earl Gideon in connection with his appeal.
		Fortas appeared in courtrooms throughout the country in pre-trial proceedings and as an appellate advocate.
		The insight that Fortas had on the problem of federalism was that the "special circumstances" test was a doctrine that should be rejected even by those Justices who were particularly sensitive to claims of states' rights and were reluctant to expand the Fourteenth Amendment.
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	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1964-Present > Filibuster Derails Supreme Court ...
		Fortas became the first sitting associate justice, nominated for chief justice, to testify at his own confirmation hearing.
		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, equivalent to 40 percent of his Court salary, to teach an American University summer course, Dirksen and others withdrew their support.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Filibuster_Derails_Supreme_Court_Appointment.htm (451 words)

	Abe Fortas - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fortas, Abe, 1910-82, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1965-69), b.
		From Abe Fortas to Zoe Baird: why some presidential nominations fail in the senate.
		Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Fortas-A.html (660 words)

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