Trump's First Supreme Court Nominee

[DrDeth]

@Iggy

More Supreme Court history…
Let’s meet George Henry Williams, nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Grant on December 1, 1873. On the surface his resume looks good. He was the former Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and current Attorney General of the United States at the time of his nomination to the US Supreme Court. A surefire winner, right? Not exactly.

Some rumors started circulating that Williams had drawn upon the credit of the Justice Department to cover some personal purchases. And though he repaid those sums in full with his own funds it was enough to earn him a Senatorial snub.

And so when it came time for the Senate to act on the nomination… they didn’t. The Senate did nothing. Williams asked President Grant to withdraw his nomination and Grant sent a letter to the Senate to that effect.
Let’s ignore the nomination of Read by Tyler since that was after the election.

Let’s ignore nominees who were ignored or rejected by the Senate like George Williams under Grant since Morrison Waite was eventually confirmed.

Let’s ignore John Rutledge, appointed Chief Justice by George Washington. The Senate rejected the nomination once they were again in session.

Willams was withdrawn.

Rutledge was rejected. Not ignored.

[tomndebb]

Anyone who wants to discuss the “unprecedented” nature of the Garland situation may open a new thread to do so.
Stick to the topic of Gorsuch.

[ /Moderating ]

[JohnT]

https://twitter.com/JoshDorner/status/839981852395991040

The first batch of documents related to Gorsuch arrived at the Senate today. On the very top, is an email from Michael R. Davis, the Associate Political Director of the White House Office of Public Affairs, dated 5-24-2005, saying the following, in full:

@Michael R. Davis to Gorsuch[/quote

Excellent. Look forward to working with you. Also, please start using mrdavis@gwb43.com as I do not often check my White House email address (who.eop.gov)

:rolleyes: