Lyndon B. Johnson Supreme Court Candidates

Lyndon B. Johnson Supreme Court Candidates

The nominations made by Lyndon B. Johnson to the Supreme Court of the United States are unusual in that Johnson appeared to have had specific individuals in mind for his appointments and actively sought to engineer vacancies on the Court to place those individuals on the court.

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