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Monday, September 12, 2005
Law - "Michael Chertoff left a life-tenured judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for this?"
"Michael Chertoff left a life-tenured judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for this?" So reads a great observation by Howard Bashman of How Appealing in this entry.
My own observation is that Justice Arthur Goldberg probably asked the same. From Wikipedia:
In 1965, Goldberg was persuaded by President Johnson to resign his seat on the court to replace the late Adlai Stevenson as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Goldberg accepted only after much prodding by Johnson, in the hope of negotiating a settlement to the escalating conflict in Vietnam. In that post, Goldberg clashed with Johnson over the course of the Vietnam War. Goldberg, frustrated with the war in Vietnam and longing to return to the bench, resigned from the ambassadorship in 1968. Goldberg was mentioned as a potential nominee for Chief Justice when Earl Warren announced his retirement in 1968, but was passed over in favor of Abe Fortas (whose nomination was eventually successfully filibustered).
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 12, 2005 12:22 PM
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