John Grisham’s novel The Pelican Briefs features fictitious Supreme Court justice Abraham Rosenberg, who, aged 91, nearly deaf and blind and tied to artificial respiration after several strokes, refuses to retire because he’s waiting for a liberal in the White House to nominate his successor.
Since the process of nominating and confirming federal justices in the U.S. has been in the focus of public attention recently, I wonder whether Justice Rosenberg is entirely fictitious or whether his character was modeled after a real justice on the Court. Anybody knows what Grisham might have had in mind?
Ford tried to impeach Douglas because Douglas sat on a board of/accepted money from an organization founed and run by somebody who had ties to organized crime and also didn’t recuse himself from a case involving a magazine he had published an article in.
