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Senate filibuster blocks Abe Fortas' elevation; nomination withdrawn

On October 4, 1968, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on President Johnson's nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to become Chief Justice, and Fortas subsequently asked to be withdrawn from consideration.

Senate filibuster blocks Abe Fortas' elevation; nomination withdrawn

The failed elevation ended Johnson's effort to reshape the Supreme Court leadership, underscored growing Senate resistance to his judicial picks, and left the Warren Court succession unsettled.

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