Abe Fortas | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Abe Fortas


00:01:20 1 Early years
00:02:45 2 Personal life
00:03:51 3 Early career
00:04:49 4 Private practice
00:06:37 4.1 iDurham v. United States/i
00:07:48 4.2 iGideon v. Wainwright/i
00:08:28 5 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
00:09:50 5.1 Relationship with other justices
00:12:05 5.2 Approach to oral arguments
00:12:33 5.3 Children's and students' rights
00:14:47 5.4 iEpperson v. Arkansas/i
00:15:37 5.5 Presidential power
00:16:03 5.6 Nomination to be Chief Justice
00:17:00 5.6.1 American University payments
00:17:55 5.6.2 Fortas Film Festival
00:18:50 5.6.3 Cloture vote
00:21:34 5.7 Ethics scandal and resignation
00:25:03 6 Later years



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Abraham "Abe" Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1965 to 1969.
A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas became a law professor at Yale University, and then an advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Fortas worked at the Department of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and during that time President Harry S. Truman appointed him to delegations that helped set up the United Nations in 1945.
In 1948 Fortas represented Lyndon Johnson in the hotly contested Democratic Senatorial Second Primary electoral dispute, and he formed close ties with the president-to-be. Fortas also represented Clarence Earl Gideon before the U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark case involving the right to counsel.
Nominated by Johnson to the Supreme Court in 1965, Fortas was confirmed by the Senate, and maintained a close working relationship with the president.  In 1968, Johnson tried to elevate Fortas to the position of Chief Justice, but that nomination faced a filibuster at least in part due to ethics problems that later caused Fortas to resign from the Court. Fortas returned to private practice, sometimes appearing before the justices with whom he had served.