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The nominations made by Lyndon B. Johnson to the Supreme Court of the United States are unusual in that Johnson appeared to have had specific individuals in mind for his appointments and actively sought to engineer vacancies on the Court to place those individuals on the court.
Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his presidency. [1] Johnson appointed 184 Article III federal judges, including 2 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 41 to the United States Courts of Appeals, 128 to the United States district courts, 1 to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 4 ...
In 1965, Johnson nominated his friend, high-profile Washington, D.C. lawyer Abe Fortas, to the Supreme Court, and he was confirmed by the United States Senate. In 1967, Johnson nominated United States Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, and he also was confirmed by the Senate. In 1968, however, Johnson made two failed ...
President Lyndon Johnson introduces Abe Fortas (r) and John Chancellor (l) at a news conference at the White House in July 1965. The Chief Executive named Fortas, a longtime friend and Washington ...
Fortas with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. On July 28, 1965, President Johnson nominated Fortas as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, [22] to succeed Arthur Goldberg, who had resigned to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations following the death of Adlai Stevenson.
Since the Supreme Court first convened in 1790, 116 justices have served on the bench. Of those, 108 have been White men. ... The first appointment – when Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Marshall ...
Formal nomination sent to the Senate signed by President Johnson. Thurgood Marshall was nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 13, 1967 to fill the seat being vacated by Tom C. Clark.
Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Abe Fortas, then an associate justice, for Chief Justice. Fortas would have succeeded Earl Warren , who had decided to retire. Controversy ensued regarding Fortas's extrajudicial activities, and at Fortas's request, Johnson withdrew the nomination prior to a vote of the full Senate. [ 41 ]