Senate Republicans, for example, used unprecedented tactics to prevent Democratic President Barack Obama from filling the Supreme Court seat of the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. Warren “detested” his fellow Californian with an “abiding passion” and feared Nixon would dismantle the Warren Court’s revolutionary legacy. “I don’t intend to put some damned Republican on the Court,” Johnson fired back at Clifford. The demise of the Court’s liberal majority is littered with what-ifs. In his memoir, the former president admitted he “feared… a conservative Court.” Yet, in trying to prevent it, he instead helped foster the creation of the very thing he feared.

Source: Forbes October 07, 2024 18:35 UTC