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Fortas

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For·tas  (fôrts), Abraham Known as "Abe." 1910-1982.
American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1965-1969) but resigned over a public controversy about his private finances.


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Johnson's nomination of Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice.
The case on which the court ruled had been brought by an Israeli and the swing vote cast by Justice Abe Fortas, an avowed Zionist.
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," said Justice Abe Fortas in 1969.
 
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