Consideration For Nomination To The Supreme Court and To An Appeals Court
In his book "Witness to Power, John Ehrlichman wrote that Nixon was "intrigued" with the idea of nominating Lafontant to the Supreme Court. Nixon also considered nominating Lafontant to an appeals-court post, but the American Bar Association found her to be unqualified, according to Sheldon Goodman's book "Picking Federal Judges," and Nixon dropped the idea.
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