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I don’t think Carswell would’ve fixed that. Even a lot of Democratic justices wouldn’t be great on that issue. I recommend checking LBJ’s list, and Clinton’s. A court with Laurence Tribe in it is a Court very much improved by his presence.

Oh yeah, was just an example, so it was a passing mention rather than an in-depth analysis. I can’t really come up with any other mediocre justices off the top of my head except McReynolds, and that’s like putting J. Edgar Hoover on the seat with that level of bigotry. Ideologues are not...

Those are the southerners that care about how the nation views them. They’re transformed into a majority by the comforting lie that “At least most of them aren’t hateful enough to say it out loud!” Plus, even the more media savvy ones have their dog whistles. Their judicial decisions will be...

Yeah, LBJ’s list is reasonably concise, but it seems that for Nixon, they were just throwing names af the wall and seeing what stuck. Yep, you only really highlight: celebrities (the ones who always get media attention), leadership, and your personal faves (if they hold your policy positions...

That’s a fair point. Yeah, problem is that not many southerners are like that, most don’t care or even use the lifetime appointment to really let it all out.

From the wiki list: Lyndon B. Johnson Supreme Court candidates (Only counting those not confirmed) For Chief Justice, you have: Abe Fortas and Arthur Goldberg Associate Justices: A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Homer Thornberry, Henry H. Fowler, Cyrus Vance, Lorna E. Lockwood, Shirley M...

"You do what you think is right and let the law catch up." - Thurgood Marshall “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees." - William O. Douglas in Sierra Club v. Morton Kant was (partially) correct in that we should (generally) view people as ends, and not means, but the absolutism is certainly...

Not familiar enough with Rehnquist to comment, though in terms of corruption and conservatism, Carswell would be solidly in the Thomas camp, though for purposes of example, I'll leave it at proposed/unsuccessful nominees.

Allow me to apologize to Justice Black with this: regardless of his tragic conservative shift in later years, to my understanding, he was not mediocre, and certainly not to the degree Carswell would've been. (Depending on the arguments made, and evidence provided, I could even see myself...

"I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it." - Kylo Ren

Resident Commissioners of San Juan (original name of Puerto Rico) in a TL where statehood is immediately granted on 23 March, 1996 (Italics are changes from OTL.) José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín Born: 18 February, 1898 Died: 30 April, 1980 Party: Union Party (named Liberal Party IOTL. IOTL...

If you get a court filled with clones of William O. Douglas and have them rule on Baker v. Nelson (in favor of Baker), and you get gay marriage in late 1972/early 1973.

That just sounds like a way of getting late career Hugo Black on the court without any of the previous New Deal goodness.

Ideal Elvis career Filmography (* means proposed but not done) 1955 Talent Scouts (tv)* - Himself 1956 Bus Stop* - Beauregard "Bo" Decker Love Me Tender - Clint Reno The Girl Can’t Help It* - Himself The Rainmaker* - Jim Curry 1957 Jailhouse Rock - Vince Everett Loving You - Jimmy...

I’d would also use the ones from my TL The American Civil War: The Rule of the Radical Republicans: 1) The 13th Amendment is the one proposed by Charles Sumner: All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave; and the Congress shall have power to make all...