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I started this blog back on July 2, 2005 (happy 17th birthday to the blog!) with a post about putting a Floridian on the Supreme Court.
That's now a reality! Yay for KBJ, a Miamian!
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a TikTok minute. pic.twitter.com/jJOh3ZyN0d
— Katie Barlow (@katieleebarlow) June 30, 2022
7 comments:
you're welcome
for what
A little history. She was not the first Floridian nominated. That honor goes to Harold Carswell who was nominated by Nixon in 1970. The nomination failed when it was revealed that Carswell was an ardent racist who had explicitly claimed to be a white supremacist in 1948. That paved the way for Harry Blackmun, he of Roe v Wade fame, to get a call from the bullpen and fill the void left by Abe Fortas, who left under a cloud of ethical malfeasance. Carswell plead guilty in 1975 for making sexual advances to an undercover police officer in a men's room in Tallahasee. You can't make this stuff up.
pled guilty
Manifestations work.
The Carswell nomination fiasco should be a book and movie. Carswell was the SECOND in a row of Nixon appointees rejected by the senate. That had only occurred once before - to President Grover Cleveland in 1893-94. What was the name of the first nominee ? Who was Nixon trying to replace ? DOM could have surely answered those questions in the second grade. Clement Haynsworth was the first nominee. The opening was created by the resignation of Justice Abe Fortas. So Blackmun was choice number three. And not a bad one at that.
Does anyone know what the ABA said about Justice Jackson? I can check, but I bet she was recommended!
@1:00 pm: who cares?
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