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When president lyndon b. johnson convinced then supreme court associate justice arthur goldberg to quit the supreme court and become the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. lbj did that because he wanted this guy, abe fordice to be on the supreme court instead. fordice was an old friend of lyndon johnson's. but it was not until he tried to elevate him to chief justice in 1968 that the senate learned about just how close their relationship was. as the u.s. senate history website notes, quote, as a sitting justice he regularly attended white house staff meeting. he briefed the president on secret court ...

Robert bourque. the senate rejected robert bourque, but at least they acted on him and that seat was open, let's say, for about 200 days. then if we go back further in '69 and '70 it was actually a whole year that a seat remained open after abe fordice stepped down but, again, the senate was acting on people, rejeblgting th -- rejecting them but acting and i think it's amazing that the political pressure allowed -- there was not enough i think, once we get into 2017, things might change that way. and face it, this is a court that was designed to have nine seats. nine people. we might even see,...