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One teacher has already been charged with lewd conduct with 23 Houston english vacancy Discussions for this story are now closed. Please see the Community FAQ for more information. A SCOTUS vacancy will no doubt produce the same kind of fight that greeted the Robert Bork nomination in 1 Arthur Goldbergs resume was not enough to defeat New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in 19 Thirty-four years ago today, Alaska Sen. Gravel begins reading the Pentagon Papers Houston english vacancy in the Senate. Q: Are you surprised that Chief Justice William Rehnquist didnt announce his retirement? I thought his leaving was a no-brainer. Arthur Taylor, Nyack, A: Media conjecture aside, there was no guarantee that Rehnquist if he were to call it quits would do so on the last day of the courts term. Or on the day after. Certainly, Houston english vacancy was bracing for an announcement, and certainly the e-mail blasters and bloggers on the left and the right were Houston english vacancy to strike. I still expect Rehnquist, who is suffering from thyroid cancer, to retire in the very near future. It is true that when justices leave voluntarily, more often than not they do so at the conclusion of the courts term. The last justice to retire, Harry Blackmun, was even more accommodating: His announcement came in April of 1994, to be effective at the end of the term in Houston english vacancy June. That gave the Clinton administration plenty of time to weigh potential successors. The situation was different when William O. Douglas left the court. He Houston english vacancy a debilitating stroke on New Years Eve, 1974, but refused to step aside despite the urgings of many of his colleagues. He finally resigned on Nov. 12, 1 Speaking of Blackmun, his retirement was the last time there was a vacancy on the court and that was 11 Houston english vacancy ago. The longest previous period of constancy was the 12-year period between 1811-1823, in which no justice retired or died. Q: In reading about a possible vacancy on the Supreme Court, I came across something called the Jewish seat. What in the world is that? Norman Brooks, Trenton, A: Its not officially called that, of course. But after Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo died in 1938, Felix Frankfurter succeeded him on the court. And when Frankfurter retired in 1962, President Kennedy named another Jew, Arthur Goldberg, to succeed him. Thats when the term Jewish seat began to be widely used. The tradition continued when Abe Fortas succeeded Goldberg in 1 The first Jew named to the court was Louis Brandeis, who was nominated by President Wilson in 1 His nomination was met with angry debate, much of it blamed on anti-Semitism. Emotions ran so high that when Brandeis joined the court, another associate justice, James McReynolds, refused to sit next to him when the court had its official photo taken. While still on the court, Brandeis was joined by another Jew, Cardozo, who was named by President Hoover in 1 Compared to the outcry over Brandeis nomination, however, the reaction to Cardozo was muted; unlike the Senate vote on Brandeis, when 22 senators voted no, Cardozo was approved by voice vote. It was Cardozo who essentially began the streak that became known as the Jewish seat. Cardozos death in Houston english vacancy led to Frankfurter, who left the court in 1962 following a stroke and was succeeded by Goldberg. Following the death of United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson in 1965, President Johnson convinced Goldberg to leave the court for the One reason for LBJs maneuvering was to get his longtime ally/crony take your pick, Abe Fortas who also happened to be Jewish on the court. Goldberg may Houston english vacancy been bamboozled into leaving the court and that in itself is a fascinating story but for Fortas the turmoil was worse. Johnson tried to elevate him to chief justice in 1968 after Earl Warren announced he wanted to step down. A filibuster led by Republicans and Southern Democrats forced Johnson to withdraw Fortas name that year, though he did stay on the court. Then, a year later, Life magazine reported that Fortas took though later returned money from a foundation controlled by the family of Louis Wolfson, an indicted stock manipulator. The resulting uproar forced Fortas to quit the court in May of 1969, although he denied any wrongdoing. In seeking a nominee to succeed Fortas, President Nixon had no desire to continue the Jewish seat tradition. After the Senate rejected his first two choices Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, Nixon settled on Harry Blackmun, a Methodist and long-time friend of Chief Justice Warren Burger.