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3 unusual facts about Arthur Goldberg


Arthur Goldberg

Goldberg also served as general counsel of the United Steelworkers of America.

Initially considering a challenge to Charles Goodell's reelection to the United States Senate, he decided to run against New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1970.

In 1967, Goldberg was a key drafter of Resolution 242, which followed the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab states.


Ideological leanings of U.S. Supreme Court justices

President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren to be Chief Justice in 1953, and both graphs indicate that the Court then turned in a more liberal direction as Warren grew substantially more liberal and especially when he was joined by strong liberal justices William Brennan, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, and Thurgood Marshall (though Justices Black and Felix Frankfurter became more conservative over time).

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Although he was president for less than three years, John F. Kennedy appointed two men to the Supreme Court of the United States: Byron White and Arthur Goldberg.

JONAH

Arthur Goldberg is a former secretary-treasurer of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality.

Leon A. Green

Three of Green's students received appointments to the United States Supreme Court: John Paul Stevens and Arthur Goldberg from Northwestern University, and Thomas Campbell Clark from the University of Texas.

South Texas Law Review

South Texas Law Review has published articles written by five Justices from the Supreme Court of the United States: Arthur Goldberg, William J. Brennan, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, and Clarence Thomas.


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Lyndon B. Johnson Supreme Court candidates

Former Justice Arthur Goldberg later claimed that he was Earl Warren's preference to succeed him.