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SCOTUS_Nominations.sTitle = "Supreme Court nominations by president since 1968";
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SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "Since 1968, six Supreme Court nominees have withdrawn under fire or have been rejected by the Senate, while 13 have been confirmed. Choose a nominating president at left to learn more."; SCOTUS_Nominations[i++] = new Array("","Lyndon Johnson","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "1968
Nominees: Associate Justice Abe Fortas to be chief justice; Homer Thornberry to be associate justice
Controversy: Alleged cronyism, as Fortas and Thornberry were longtime friends of Johnson. Also, Fortas's role in Supreme Court rulings expanding rights of criminal defendants.
Outcome: Nominations withdrawn after a Senate filibuster.";
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SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "1969
Nominee: Warren Burger
Controversy: None.
Outcome: Confirmed by 74-3 vote.
Nominee: Clement Haynesworth
Controversy: Haynesworth was accused of having a conflict of interest aftering purchasing shares in a company that was a party in a case he heard as a federal judge. Labor unions and civil rights groups also accused him of being unsympathetic to their causes.
Outcome: Rejected by 55-45 vote.
1970
Nominee: Harold Carswell
Controversy: Carswell said in 1948 that he would always be committed to the principle of \"white supremacy.\" Even his supporters called him a mediocre choice.
Outcome: Rejected by 51-45 vote.
Nominee: Harry Blackmun
Controversy: None.
Outcome: Unanimously confirmed.
1971
Nominee: Lewis Powell
Controversy: None.
Outcome: Confirmed by 89-1 vote.
Nominee: William Rehnquist
Controversy: The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups opposed Rehnquist because he had criticized Vietnam War student protesters as \"the new barbarians.\" He had also helped draft Nixon administration policies recommending preventive detention of criminal suspects and easing wiretap rules.
Outcome: Confirmed by 68-26 vote.";
SCOTUS_Nominations[i++] = new Array("","Gerald Ford","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "1975
Nominee: John Paul Stevens
Controversy: None.
Outcome: Unanimously confirmed.";
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SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "1981
Nominee: Sandra Day O'Connor
Controversy: Some social conservatives opposed O'Connor because they doubted she was opposed to the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision.
Outcome: Unanimously confirmed.
1986
Nominee: William Rehnquist, to be chief justice
Controversy: Led by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Democrats charged that Rehnquist was \"too extreme\" and \"out of the mainstream.\"
Outcome: Confirmed by 65-33 vote.
Nominee: Antonin Scalia
Controversy: None.
Outcome: Unanimously confirmed.
1987
Nominee: Robert Bork
Controversy: Bork's scholarly and polemical essays had denounced parts of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Supreme Court's 1965 Griswold ruling establishing the right of married couples to use contraceptives.
Outcome: Rejected by 58-42 vote.
Nominee: Douglas Ginsburg
Controversy: Ginsburg admitted he had smoked marijuana during the late 1970s while a professor at Harvard Law School.
Outcome: Nomination withdrawn.
1988
Nominee: Anthony Kennedy
Controversy: None.
Outcome: Unanimously confirmed.";
SCOTUS_Nominations[i++] = new Array("","George Bush","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "1990
Nominee: David Souter
Controversy: None.
Outcome: Confirmed by 90-9 vote.
1991
Nominee: Clarence Thomas
Controversy: Anita Hill, a former aide to Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, accused him of describing pornographic movies and of making lewd suggestions. Thomas denied the charges and accused the Judiciary Committee of conducting a \"high-tech lynching.\"
Outcome: Confirmed by 52-48 vote.";
SCOTUS_Nominations[i++] = new Array("","Bill Clinton","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "1994
Nominee: Stephen Breyer
Controversy: Some senators criticized Breyer for not recusing himself as a federal appeals judge in cases involving Lloyds of London, an insurance partnership in which he had invested.
Outcome: Confirmed by 87-9 vote.
1993
Nominee: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Controversy: None
Outcome: Confirmed by 96-3 vote.";
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SCOTUS_Nominations[i-1].body = "2005
Nominee: John Roberts, to be chief justice
Controversy: None
Outcome: Confirmed by 78-22 vote.
Nominee: Harriet Miers to be associate justice.
Controversy: Alleged cronyism (Miers was Bush’s White House counsel) and skepticism about her credentials. Conservatives were also concerned that she would not be a reliable vote against abortion, affirmative actions and other hot-button issues.
Outcome: Miers asked that her nomination be withdrawn.
Nominee: Samuel Alito
Controversy: None
Outcome: Confirmed by 58-42 vote.";
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