Alternate Supreme Court Justices

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As the title says

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Good idea! I'll try to work one up though I know little on this subject.

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Here are a couple people I'd think would be interesting or cool to have on the Supreme Court.

-Howard Baker (Nixon, 1972)
-James L Buckley (Reagan, 1988)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Richard Nixon---Robert Byrd-1971

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Barack Obama-Glenn Greenwald 2009

[Miles]

Barack Obama-Diane Wood 2010

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Cyrus Vance (Lyndon Johnson, 1965)
Edmund Muskie (Lyndon Johnson, 1967)
Robert Byrd (Richard Nixon, 1969)
Spiro Agnew (Richard Nixon, 1970)
Caspar Weinberger (Richard Nixon, 1972)
Arlen Specter (Richard Nixon, 1972)
Ed Meese (Ronald Reagan, 1981)
William Thaddeus Coleman (Ronald Reagan, 1986)
George Mitchell (Bill Clinton, 1993)
Hillary Clinton (Bill Clinton, 1994)
John Cornyn (George W. Bush, 2005)
Alberto Gonzalez (George W. Bush, 2005)
Elizabeth Warren (Barack Obama, 2009)
Eric Holder (Barack Obama, 2010)

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Robert Bork (Reagan, 1987)

[Kaine for Senate '18]

1962: Charles Whittaker replaced by William Hastie
1962: Felix Frankfurter replaced by Paul Freund
1965: Arthur Goldberg replaced by Homer Thornberry
1967: Tom Clark replaced by Ed Muskie
1969: Earl Warren replaced by Potter Stewart
1969: Potter Stewart replaced by David W. Dyer
1970: Abe Fortas replaced by Robert Byrd
1972: Hugo Black replaced by Hershel Friday
1972: John Marshall Harlan II replaced by Richard H. Poff
1975: William O. Douglas replaced by Carla Hills
1981: Potter Stewart replaced by Robert Bork
1986: Warren Burger replaced by Orrin Hatch
1987: Lewis Powell replaced by Antonin Scalia
1990: William Brennan replaced by Edith Jones
1991: Thurgood Marshall replaced by Emilio Garza
1993: Byron White replaced by Mario Cuomo
1994: Harry Blackmun replaced by Richard S. Arnold
2005: William Rehnquist replaced by Clarence Thomas
2006: Sandra Day O'Connor replaced by Brett M. Kavanaugh
2009: David Souter replaced by Goodwin Liu
2010: John Paul Stevens replaced by Kathleen Sullivan

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What's the deal with "Byrd-Nixon" thing?

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What's the deal with "Byrd-Nixon" thing?

Nixon wanted to put Byrd on the court at one point because he though he would be a conservative thorn in the courts' side. It is still disputed whether it was meant as a joke or serious.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What's the deal with "Byrd-Nixon" thing?

Nixon wanted to put Byrd on the court at one point because he though he would be a conservative thorn in the courts' side. It is still disputed whether it was meant as a joke or serious.

Byrd wouldn never accept such thing. He was totally consumed with his Senate work.

More realistic scenario of Republican President appointing conservative Democrat to the bench is Reagan nominating Howell Heflin. Reagan was serious about that, but Heflin didn't want a nomination.

Yet, Heflin was former state Supreme Court Chief Justice and now that "in love" with Senate as Byrd.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

What's the deal with "Byrd-Nixon" thing?

Nixon wanted to put Byrd on the court at one point because he though he would be a conservative thorn in the courts' side. It is still disputed whether it was meant as a joke or serious.

Byrd wouldn never accept such thing. He was totally consumed with his Senate work.

More realistic scenario of Republican President appointing conservative Democrat to the bench is Reagan nominating Howell Heflin. Reagan was serious about that, but Heflin didn't want a nomination.

Yet, Heflin was former state Supreme Court Chief Justice and now that "in love" with Senate as Byrd.

It was never really considered too much. In Nixons words, Byrd was a "very vain man with limited ability"..but I always wondered how would a Constitutionalist and Southener like Byrd do on the SCOTUS.