Nixon's Failed Supreme Court Nominees
For how controversial the Supreme Court has been in the last two decades, it may surprise people to know that few people in history have been rejected for the Supreme Court by a vote of the Senate: only eleven have lost a confirmation vote, and Richard Nixon had the misfortune of nominating two of them.
In 1968, in one of his appeals to the South, Richar…
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