Johnson and Nixon Supreme Court Nominations

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🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Brooklyn College Professor KC Johnson taught a class on Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon’s Supreme Court nominations. He described Johnson’s plan to fill the bench with liberal justices and the difficulties he ran into getting them confirmed. He outlined the resistance from conservative senators in the confirmation hearings and concluded with background on some of Nixon’s nominations to the court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6	This week, a class on presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominations,
0:34.6	taught by Brooklyn College Professor K.C Casey Johnson. This episode was recorded in
0:39.8	2018. All right, so today what we're going to be looking at is the development of controversial
0:46.7	Supreme Court nominations in the late 60s and early 70s. And the backdrop to this, remember
0:51.8	last time we're looking at the Warren Court, this increasing surge of controversial decisions from the court was sort of two basic principles.
1:00.0	One, remember the idea of counter-majoritarianism, this idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support, whether it was atheists or civil rights activists
1:14.6	or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s.
1:18.6	And second was the emergence of this philosophy
1:21.6	that some historians have called rights-related liberalism.
1:24.6	The idea that liberalism in the United States
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