Example sentences for: fortas

How can you use “fortas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Abe Fortas' 1968 nomination as chief justice of the Supreme Court, which Republicans delayed to death, marked the first sign of change, but Robert Bork's 1987 Supreme Court nomination truly ushered in the era of appointments warfare.

  • Sleaze in high places seems to be the order of the day: the NYT runs an op-ed by historian Michael Beschloss about the pros and cons of Oval Office taping that includes a conversation between LBJ and Abe Fortas in which the married Fortas tells the president that he's out with a "beautiful lady in red" who's not his wife and that "We're doing good, and I'm going to try to do bad before the evening's over."

  • Aren't we?"--something lawyer-lobbyist Abe Fortas discovered when he managed to distract attention from his corruption by playing classical violin in public.


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