Abe Fortas

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Abe Fortas
Under Secretary of the Interior
In office
January 1, 1944 – January 12, 1946
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byOscar L. Chapman
In office
June 23, 1942 – November 16, 1943
Preceded byJohn J. Dempsey
Succeeded byNone (position vacant)
Personal details
Born
Abraham Fortas

(1910-06-19)June 19, 1910
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedApril 5, 1982(1982-04-05) (aged 71)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Carolyn Agger
​
(m. 1935)​
Education
Seaman Apprentice
UnitNaval Training Station Sampson, New York

Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an

Department of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to delegations that helped set up the United Nations
in 1945.

In 1948, Fortas represented

U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark case involving the right to counsel. Nominated by Johnson to the Supreme Court in 1965, Fortas was confirmed by the Senate, and maintained a close working relationship with the president. As a justice, Fortas wrote several notable majority opinions including Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
.

In 1968, Johnson tried to elevate Fortas to the position of Chief Justice of the United States, but that nomination faced a filibuster and was withdrawn. Fortas later resigned from the Court after a controversy involving his acceptance of $20,000 from financier Louis Wolfson while Wolfson was being investigated for insider trading. The Justice Department investigated Fortas at the behest of President Richard Nixon, who saw replacing Fortas as a chance to move the Court in a more conservative direction. Attorney General John N. Mitchell pressured Fortas into resigning.[2] Following his resignation, Fortas returned to private practice, occasionally appearing before the justices with whom he had served.

Early years

Fortas was born the youngest of five children to Orthodox Jewish immigrants Woolfe Fortas[a] and Rachel "Ray" Berzansky Fortas[b] in Memphis, Tennessee.[3][page needed][4] Woolfe was born in Russia, and Rachel was born in Lithuania.[3][page needed][4] Woolfe was a cabinetmaker, and the couple operated a store together.[5] Fortas acquired a lifelong love for music from his father, who encouraged his playing the violin, and was known in Memphis as "Fiddlin' Abe Fortas".[6] Fortas learned to play the violin from local Catholic nuns at the St. Patrick's School on Linden, a block from his house on Pontotoc Street; he then studied chamber music with the leader of a local trio. Fortas attended South Side High School where, at the age of sixteen, he graduated second in his class in 1926. After graduating from high school, Fortas won a scholarship to attend Southwestern at Memphis, a liberal arts college now called Rhodes College. During his college years, Fortas supported himself by working as a shoe salesman and as a performing violinist, while also giving violin lessons to local children. Initially, Fortas considered studying music, before settling on English and political science. He graduated first in his class in 1930.

Fortas earned scholarships from both

Yale Law Journal and graduated cum laude and second in the class of 1933.[4] One of his professors, William O. Douglas
, was impressed with Fortas, and Douglas arranged for Fortas to stay at Yale to become an assistant professor of law.

Shortly thereafter, Fortas took on a series of government positions, including with the

New Haven and Washington in order to fulfill his responsibilities both to Yale and to the government.[6]

Personal life

Georgetown
, Washington, D.C.

In 1935, Fortas married Carolyn E. Agger, who became a successful tax lawyer.

Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.[3][page needed][8]

Just like his days in Memphis, Fortas was an amateur musician who played the violin in a string quartet, called the "N Street Strictly-no-refunds String Quartet" on Sunday evenings in Washington. Fortas was friends with well-known musicians such as Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals.[3][9] Fortas was a good friend of the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marín, calling him "a spectacularly great figure". Fortas visited the island often, frequently lobbied for the island's interests in Congress, participated in drafting the Constitution of Puerto Rico, and gave legal advice to Marín's administration whenever requested.[10]

The

Puerto Rican actor José Ferrer portrayed Fortas in the film Gideon's Trumpet (1980).[11]

Early career

Leaving Yale in 1939, Fortas served as general counsel of the

Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, introduced him to a young congressman from Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson
.

In October 1943, Fortas was granted a leave of absence from the Department of Interior to join the United States Navy for World War II. Assigned to Naval Training Station Sampson, New York for his initial training, in December 1943 he was honorably discharged as the result of an arrested case of ocular tuberculosis that caused doctors to deem him medically unfit. He had resigned from his position at the Interior department while in the navy, but was reappointed in January 1944. In 1945, he was appointed by President Harry S. Truman as an advisor to the U.S. delegation during the organizational meeting of the United Nations (UN) in San Francisco, and at the 1946 General Assembly meeting in London.[12]

Private practice

In 1946, after leaving government service, Fortas founded a law firm, Arnold & Fortas, with Thurman Arnold. Former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Paul A. Porter joined the firm in 1947; in 1965, following the appointment of Fortas to the Supreme Court, the firm was renamed as Arnold & Porter. For many years, it has remained one of Washington's most influential law firms,[13] and today is among the most profitable law firms in the world.

In the

U.S. Senator
.

During the

Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
.

Fortas initially opposed the creation of a

presidential commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.[14] When it became clear that multiple investigations were gearing up simultaneously at the city, state, and federal levels, Fortas changed his mind and advised Johnson to establish the Warren Commission.[15]

Durham v. United States

Further information:
U.S. Court of Appeals.[16]

Durham's defense had been denied because the District Court had applied the M'Naghten rules, requiring that the defense prove the accused did not know the difference between right and wrong for an insanity plea to be accepted. Adopted by the British House of Lords in 1843, generations before the origins of modern psychiatry, this test was still in common use in American courts over a century later.

The effect of this standard was to exclude psychiatric and psychological testimony almost entirely from the legal process. In a critical turning point for American criminal law, the Court of Appeals accepted Fortas's call to abandon the M'Naghten Rule and to allow for testimony and evidence regarding the defendant's mental state.[17]

Gideon v. Wainwright

In 1963, Fortas represented

Sixth Amendment to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own.[18][19] Fortas's former Yale Law School professor, longtime friend and future Supreme Court colleague, William O. Douglas praised his argument as "probably the best single legal argument" in Douglas's time on the court.[20]

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Fortas with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965

On July 28, 1965, President Johnson

Senate Judiciary Committee two weeks later, following a one-day public hearing.[21] He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 11, 1965,[21] and took the judicial oath of office on October 4, 1965.[1] His appointment ensured the continuation of the Warren Court's liberal majority.[4]

The seat Fortas occupied on the Court had come to be informally known as the "

Benjamin Cardozo before him—were also Jewish.[23]

Fortas continued to serve as an adviser to Johnson after becoming an associate justice.[25] He attended White House staff meetings, advising the president on judicial nominations and discussing private Supreme Court deliberations with him.[26] In 1966, he substantially edited an initial version of Johnson's State of the Union Address.[27]

In 1968, Fortas wrote a book called Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience.[28]

Fortas's law clerks included future

Martha A. Field, a scholar of constitutional law, family law, and bioethics
.

Relationship with other justices

Fortas had mostly good working relations with his fellow justices, although they worried that he talked to President Johnson too much. Fortas clashed with his fellow Associate Justice Hugo Black during much of his time on the Court. The two had been friends since the 1930s, and Black helped convince Fortas's wife, Carolyn Agger, to consent to his appointment to the Supreme Court. However, once both men were on the Court, they disagreed about the manner in which the Constitution should be interpreted, finding themselves on opposing sides of the Court's opinions most of the time. In 1968, a Warren clerk called their feud "one of the most basic animosities of the Court".[3][page needed]

Fortas's best relationship was with

William J. Brennan and Chief Justice Earl Warren. Brennan's offices were in the chambers next to those of Fortas. Fortas's wife recalled that Fortas "loved Warren".[3][page needed
]

Fortas called fellow associate justice John Marshall Harlan II "one of my dearest friends, although we usually are on opposite sides of the issues here."[3][page needed]

In 1967, Fortas and Douglas dissented in the 5–4 decision Fortson v. Morris, which cleared the path for the

14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

"If the voting right is to mean anything, it certainly must be protected against the possibility that the victory will go to the loser."[29]

In this case, Maddox trailed Callaway by about 3,000 votes. Justice Black took the

U.S. Constitution does not dictate how a state must choose its governor:

"Our business is not to write the laws to fit the day. Our task is to interpret the Constitution."[30]

Approach to oral arguments

Fortas was critical of justices (he specifically cited Thurgood Marshall) who frequently broke into attorneys' arguments to ask questions.[3][page needed] As an attorney arguing before the Court, he had resented intrusions by the justices and so as a justice himself, he felt it best to let the lawyers give their arguments uninterrupted.[3][page needed]

Children's and students' rights

Abe Fortas in 1968

During his time on the Court, Fortas led a revolution in US

juvenile justice, broadly extending the Court's logic on due process rights and procedure to legal minors and overturning the existing paradigm of parens patriae in which the state had usurped the parental role. Writing the majority decision in Kent v. United States (1966), the first Supreme Court case that evaluated a juvenile court procedure, Fortas suggested that the existing system might be "the worst of both worlds."[3]

At that time, the state was held to have a paternal interest in the child rather than a prosecutorial one, a concept that dispensed with the obligation to provide a child accused of a crime with the opportunity to make a defense. Still, courts were empowered to decide, in the interests of the child, to have the child incarcerated for lengthy periods or otherwise severely punished.

Fortas elaborated on his critique the following year in the case of

obscene phone call to his neighbor. Had he been an adult, the maximum punishment he could have received was a $50.00 fine or two months in jail. Fortas used the case to launch a ferocious attack on the juvenile justice system and parens patriae. His majority opinion was a landmark, extending the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of right to sufficient notice, right to counsel, right to confrontation of witnesses, and right against self-incrimination to certain juvenile proceedings.[3]

Two years later, Fortas wrote another landmark in

suspended for wearing black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. Extending First Amendment
rights to school students for the first time, Fortas wrote that neither "students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate".

Epperson v. Arkansas

Main article: Epperson v. Arkansas

In 1968, Fortas persuaded the court to accept the appeal of Little Rock Central High School teacher Sue Epperson who had challenged Arkansas's anti-evolution law, with the support of the state teachers union. Epperson had won the case, but the Arkansas Supreme Court had overturned the ruling. Although the Court agreed quickly after hearing the case that the Arkansas ruling should be reversed, there was no consensus as to why, most Justices favoring fairly narrow grounds. Fortas was the architect and the author of the broader landmark majority opinion that emerged in Epperson v. Arkansas, banning religiously based creation narratives from public school science curricula.[3]

Presidential power

Fortas believed in an expanded executive branch and a less powerful legislative branch. He wrote: "The enormous growth of presidential power from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson was a necessary and an inevitable adaptation of our constitutional system to national needs."[3][page needed]

Nomination to be Chief Justice

On June 26, 1968, Johnson nominated Fortas as

segregationist, told Johnson he "had never seen so much feeling against a man as against Fortas".[3][page needed
]

National Socialist White People's Party undertook a phone campaign that summer, condemning Fortas as a "despicable Jew with a 'red' record that smells to high heaven." Such attacks were soundly condemned by most senators. Even so, the White House began alerting the press to growing antisemitic opposition against Fortas, and used the issue to garner support for him in the Senate.[34] Fortas himself called the effort to defeat his nomination, "anti-Negro, anti-liberal, anti-civil rights, [and] anti-Semitic."[35]

American University payments

Fortas's acceptance of $15,000 for nine speaking engagements at

Washington College of Law became a source of controversy.[27] The money had come, not from the university, but from private sources that represented business interests connected to 40 companies; Senator Strom Thurmond raised the idea that cases involving these companies might come to the Court, and Fortas might not be objective.[36] While the fee itself was legal, the size of the fee raised much concern about the Court's insulation from private interests, especially as the speaking fee had been funded by former legal clients and partners of Fortas. The $15,000 represented more than 40 percent of a Supreme Court justice's salary at the time, and was seven times what any other American University seminar leader had ever been paid.[36]

"Fortas Film Festival"

Thurmond also hammered at the issue of pornography. He condemned Fortas for voting with the majority to overturn obscenity laws dealing with pornographic films. Thurmond obtained some of the films in question and played them in the Senate building while the hearings were out of session.[27] These showings became known as the "Fortas Film Festival", and the association of Fortas with some of the films' strip-teases and especially the rape or homosexual sex depicted in one film, Flaming Creatures, was effective in tarnishing Fortas's image and disheartening his supporters.[37]

Cloture vote

It was not until September 17 that the Judiciary Committee took a final vote on the nomination, reporting it favorably by an 11 to 6 vote to the full Senate.[21] Thurmond promised to filibuster, and when the senate debate began on September 25, Fortas's opponents restated every criticism they had earlier directed against Fortas, especially with regard to the issue of obscenity.[37] Johnson remained resolute in his support for his nominee, saying to an aide: "We won't withdraw the nomination. I won't do that to Abe."[38]

The debate lasted for four days, until a cloture motion to end the debate was made. The 45–43 vote in favor of cloture demonstrated that the nomination was in trouble. It was 14 votes short of the two-thirds majority (59 votes) needed to cut off debate and force a vote on the nomination.[25] (35 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted to end debate, while 24 Republicans and 19 Democrats voted to continue it.)[39] Although the vote suggested to Fortas's supporters that a slim majority favored confirmation, it effectively derailed the nomination.[40] In light of the slim prospect for a positive outcome, Johnson withdrew Fortas's nomination.[31]

News accounts at the time consistently described the Senate floor debate as a filibuster intended to prevent the nomination from reaching the floor, where a simple majority vote would have been enough for confirmation.[40][32] Republican Senator John Cornyn asserted in 2003, however, that several senators who opposed Fortas asserted at the time they were not conducting a perpetual filibuster and were not trying to prevent a final up-or-down vote from occurring.[41] Public debate occasionally still occurs over whether Fortas would have been confirmed in a simple majority vote. The Fortas nomination is seen as a harbinger of later filibusters of judicial nominees.[39]

Richard Nixon won the

Warren Burger, who was sworn into office on June 23, 1969.[1]

Ethics scandal and resignation

Fortas remained an associate justice, but in 1969, a new scandal arose. Fortas had accepted a US $20,000 (equivalent to $166,000 in 2023)[42] retainer from the family foundation of Wall Street financier Louis Wolfson, a friend and former client, in January 1966. In return for unspecified advice, it was to pay Fortas $20,000 a year for the rest of Fortas's life (and then pay his widow for the rest of her life).[43] However, in order to avoid apparent impropriety, Fortas returned the money the same year and received no further payments.[44] Fortas was not unique in receiving this type of funding and other Justices had similar arrangements. William O. Douglas, Fortas's mentor, likewise received funding from casino magnate Albert Parvin through his own foundation.[45] The American Bar Association revamped its rules as a result of the Wolfson affair, revising circumstances under which judges should not accept outside income.[46]

Wolfson was under investigation for securities violations at the time, and it was alleged that he expected that his arrangement with Fortas would help him stave off criminal charges or help him secure a

presidential pardon. He asked Fortas to help him secure a pardon from Johnson, which Fortas claimed that he did not do. Fortas recused himself from Wolfson's case when it came before the Court.[47]

In May 1969,

William J. Brennan later said, "We were just stunned." Fortas later said he "resigned to save Douglas," another justice who was being investigated for a similar scandal at the same time.[49] Fortas resigned from the Court on May 14, 1969.[1] When the Justice Department heard the news, the Attorney General's office celebrated, and Nixon called to congratulate them.[25][48]

In 1970, Louis Wolfson surreptitiously taped a private telephone call with Fortas. The transcript of this call was disclosed by Wolfson's lawyer, Bernard Fensterwald, to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in 1977. The Washington Post subsequently published several excerpts from the transcript, including language suggesting that Fortas might indeed have spoken with President Johnson about a pardon for Wolfson, but there is no evidence that it was a quid pro quo rather than a voluntary intervention for a friend. Wolfson was convicted of violating federal securities laws later that year and spent time in prison.[50]

Fortas's seat on the Supreme Court was vacant until June 1970, when Harry Blackmun was sworn into office.[1] This was Nixon's third attempt to fill the vacancy. His earlier failed nominations were of Clement Haynsworth in September 1969 and G. Harrold Carswell in February 1970.[21]

Later years

Rebuffed in the wake of his fall by the powerful Washington law firm he had founded, Fortas founded another firm, Fortas & Koven, and maintained a successful law practice until his death in 1982. However, his wife, Carolyn Agger, stayed at Fortas's original firm—Fortas had resigned in order to protect her job there. He turned down an offer to publish his memoirs.[3]

At Fortas & Koven, Fortas also kept two notable non-paying clients: preeminent cellist/composer Pablo Casals and Lyndon Johnson. Johnson and Fortas remained great friends, with the latter often visiting the former president at his ranch near Stonewall, Texas, until his death in 1973. Fortas was asked to donate his papers to Johnson's presidential library by Lady Bird Johnson, but he replied that his correspondence with Johnson had always been kept in strictest confidence.[3]

A portrait of him was placed in Yale Law School while he was still alive, underwritten by an anonymous donor. Fortas served as a longtime member of the board of directors of Carnegie Hall, including while he was on the Supreme Court. He also served on the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since the inauguration of the project in 1964.[3]

In the course of his return to private practice, Fortas sometimes appeared before his former colleagues at the Supreme Court. On the first occasion he did so, his successor, Harry Blackmun, recalled that his eyes met Fortas's: "[Fortas] kind of nodded ... I wondered what was going through his mind". When Blackmun later questioned Fortas if he remembered the encounter, Fortas said he would "never forget it". Blackmun thought Fortas's attitude toward the new justice was remarkable, not showing "an ounce of antagonism or resentment."[3]

Fortas died from a ruptured aorta on April 5, 1982.[51] His memorial service was held at the Kennedy Center with Isaac Stern and Lady Bird Johnson in attendance.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Woolfe Fortas eventually changed his name to William. In some documents, Woolfe is spelled Woolf or Wolf.
  2. ^ In some sources, Rachel is spelled Rachael, and Berzansky is spelled Berzanski. A common alias for Rachel Berzansky is Ray Berson.

See also

References

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