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President Bill Clinton made two appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, both during his first term. On March 19, 1993, Associate Justice Byron White announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status ), effective at the end of the Supreme Court's 1992–1993 term.
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The Senate postponed the vote on his confirmation, by a vote of 23–17, on February 12, 1829. The Senate did not explicitly vote to "postpone indefinitely", but the resolution did have that effect. President Andrew Jackson instead filled the position with John McLean.
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Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeated former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee, and Ross Perot, the Reform Party nominee.
Clinton was elected president in the 1992 presidential election, defeating incumbent Republican president George H. W. Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot. At 46 years old, he became the third-youngest president of the United States and the first president to be born in the Baby Boomer generation.
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Clinton defeated Republican nominee Bob Dole and independent candidate Ross Perot in the presidential election, taking 379 of the 538 electoral votes.
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He appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court. Clinton left office with high approval ratings, though his preferred successor, Vice President Al Gore, was narrowly defeated in the Electoral College by George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election.
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He was challenged by George Jernigan, the secretary of state of Arkansas; and Clarence Cash, the deputy attorney general of Arkansas. Clinton easily won the primary contest, getting over 55% of the votes. Apart organizing his campaign, he coordinated Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign in Arkansas.
Main article: 1974 United States House of Representatives elections § Arkansas. Bill Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas in 1946. After graduating from Georgetown University, he won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University. After receiving his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1973, he decided to contest the 1974 congressional election ...
Baird, the first woman nominated to become attorney general, acknowledged to Clinton transition officials before she was nominated that she had violated immigration laws by hiring two illegal immigrants--a couple from Peru--to work as a nanny and chauffeur in her home . She also acknowledged that she had failed to pay Social Security and other taxes for them.
One White House official said Clinton’s primary concern now--based on the Baird controversy--was to find someone who was “squeaky clean.” He said he would not be surprised if Clinton named another woman, although he also said the White House was considering men as well.
Clinton, who has moved the desk used by President John F. Kennedy back into the office, said of his surroundings: “It’s a wonderful office,” and offered that he had enjoyed his first few days as chief executive.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Zoë Baird to become his Attorney General. Before she could have a confirmation hearing, it became known that she had hired undocumented workers for her household, which became known as the " Nannygate " affair. Baird paid a civil penalty levied by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Clinton withdrew the nomination.
To date, nine nominations to the cabinet have been rejected by the Senate. In addition, 18 nominations or near nominations have been withdrawn, either by the president or by the person chosen. President John Tyler holds the record for most cabinet nominees rejected by the Senate; four of his nominees failed to win confirmation.
An Oprah Winfrey tape from 1990 featured his first wife describing spousal abuse that he allegedly committed. In reaction to public coverage of the tape, his former wife said she had been "misled by faulty advice" during her divorce proceedings, and had subsequently "fully" withdrawn those allegations in 1990.
On January 4, 2009, Richardson withdrew his name from consideration because of a federal grand jury investigation into pay-to-play allegations. Later that year, the investigation ended and Richardson and his staff members were cleared of any wrongdoing.
The lengthy and contentious debate on Warren's nomination consumed the first few days of the new Congress, as "Democrats and insurgent Republicans united to oppose the confirmation on the ground" that Warren's close association with the Sugar Trust made him unsuitable to enforce federal antitrust laws.
Inman withdrew his nomination during a press conference on January 18, 1994, in which he accused William Safire, a columnist for The New York Times, of recruiting Senator Bob Dole to attack him, and claimed that Dole and Trent Lott intended to "turn up the heat" on his nomination. Dole and Lott denied this.
Representative John Ratcliffe to replace Coats.
Biden called Clinton and told him the nomination was lost. On January 22, 1993, two days after Clinton had assumed the presidency, the White House announced in the middle of the night the withdrawal of Baird's nomination.
No woman had previously served in this post. His choice, whose nomination was announced on December 24, 1992, was Zoë Baird , a 40-year-old senior vice president and general counsel at Aetna Life and Casualty Company who had previously worked in the Justice Department during the Carter administration.
The White House was annoyed with Wood, because they said that when they had initially asked her if she had a "Zoë Baird problem," she had responded in the negatory. Allies of Wood gave a starkly different account and said that she had been fully forthcoming about the details of her dealings with the immigrant.
On February 4, 1993, the Clinton White House made it known via deliberate background statements to several major newspapers that 49-year-old United States federal judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York would be his new choice for Attorney General.
The nanny obtained legal status in December 1987, and overall worked for Wood for seven years. Clinton decided the nomination could not go forward, and the next day, February 5, Wood publicly withdrew herself from consideration.
One of the few men to make the short list for the Attorney General selection, Washington lawyer Charles Ruff, was ruled out of consideration by the White House on February 6, because he had not paid Social Security taxes for years for a woman who cleaned his house.
As the inauguration of Bill Clinton took place on January 20, the nomination crisis was reaching its final phase, with Biden telling Clinton at a luncheon following the ceremony that the next day or two would be crucial. But political and public opposition continued to mount.
The next name Clinton considered was that of First Circuit judge Stephen Breyer. Clinton's staff had liked Breyer, but given an injury that he had sustained just a few days earlier, Breyer was in a significant amount of pain. During his interview with Clinton, Breyer was short of breath and in pain.
Professors Stephen L. Carter of Yale and Michael Sandel of Harvard would have fit the bill, and the wildest fantasy put forth was the nomination of Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton. However, there was a huge problem associated with such a selection.
On March 19, 1993, Associate Justice Byron White announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status ), effective at the end of the Supreme Court's 1992–1993 term. President Clinton announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg as White's replacement on June 15, 1993, and she was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 3, 1993.
Throughout much of the history of the United States, the Supreme Court of the United States was considered the least powerful branch of the government, and nominations to that body, although important, were not the source of great political controversy as they are today. Furthermore, Clinton's Supreme Court nominations were ...
Clinton offered White's seat first to Cuomo, who initially had told confidants that he was willing to take the seat, but then changed his mind and faxed Clinton a letter telling him that his duty to residents of his state was more important than his desire to serve on the court.
After Byron White announced his retirement on March 19, 1993, Clinton began a weeks-long journey through consideration of an unusually large number of candidates. The name that came up that interested Clinton the most was that of New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Clinton offered White's seat first to Cuomo, who initially had told confidants that he was willing to take the seat, but then changed his mind and faxed Clinton a letter telling him that his duty to residents of his state was more important than his desire to serve on the court.
attorney in the 1960s, and Clinton decided not to proceed with him. Clinton then asked his staff about Janie Shores, who had been the first woman to serve on the Alabama Supreme Court but who was not well known in Washington, D.C. legal circles.
Penn and the DLC argue that Bill Clinton won and the Democrats in Congress lost because the President was seen as a "different kind of Democrat," while the Democrats in Congress were not. Penn argues that "people were unwilling to return the Democrats to power in the House" because "Democrats could not be relied upon to work within the limitations of a tightening budget."
Rather, it was his defense of traditional Democratic programs. According to Greenberg, 59 percent of those polled cited Clinton's "support for domestic programs" (education, Medicare, and the environment) as the prime reason for their vote.
In short, Democrats need to develop a new political economy, a new social compact, and new ways of governing tailored to the new conditions of postindustrial America. From its stress on market-led growth and open trade to its attempts to redesign government and anchor social policy in the mainstream values of work, family, and mutual responsibility, the Clinton administration has made the first, tentative steps in the right direction. It has established important beachheads in the struggle to bring about structural changes in government and the nation's policy agenda. These include: 1 Expanding public support for the working poor, through a $21 billion increase in the earned income tax credit. 2 Cutting in half the federal deficit as well as slowing spending growth. 3 Injecting choice and competition in public education through charter schools. 4 Helping communities defend themselves through community policing and more police on the streets. 5 Replacing the federal entitlement to welfare with an obligation to work. 6 Stimulating community initiative and economic development in the inner cities. 7 Reinventing government, including a sharp reduction in the federal workforce 8 #N#.#N# 9 Linking increased college aid to national service through the AmeriCorps initiative. 10 Expanding trade and assisting emerging democracies.
House Democrats, Penn declared, failed to regain a majority because they "failed to join Clinton in the center, demonstrating fiscal moderation. . . . Democrats, egged on by the labor unions, focused relentlessly on wage stagnation and the perceived lack of good jobs.
In short, Clinton's winning formula in 1996 was a canny synthesis of traditional Democratic commitments and New Democrat innovations. While the former appeals to core Democratic constituencies, the latter has greatest potential for enlarging the party's base.
C ontrary to what Robert Borosage and Stanley Greenberg say, downscale voters are not the center of the electoral universe. Greenberg continues to cling to this limiting and ideologically driven thesis in interpreting his poll results, neglecting both the President's message and the election returns.
The Senators from New York were Edward Murphy Jr. and David B. Hill; Hill objected to Cleveland's nominations, and most other Senators supported Hill.
Of these, 11 nominees were rejected in Senate roll-call votes, 11 were withdrawn by the president, and 15 lapsed at the end of a session of Congress. Six of these unsuccessful nominees were subsequently nominated and confirmed to other seats on the Court.
There have been 37 unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Congress specified the Court's original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the initial size of the Supreme Court. The number of justices on the Supreme Court changed six times ...
Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States. Established by Article III of the Constitution, the detailed structure of the Court was laid down by the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Congress specified the Court's original and ...
The subsequent nomination of John Rutledge as Chief Justice was rejected by a vote of 10–14 on December 15, 1795. Rutledge's strident and vocal opposition to the Jay Treaty may have been the main reason for his rejection. Because he had been a recess appointment , Rutledge served as Chief Justice for one term.
Walworth's nomination was withdrawn on February 6, 1845, and King's two days later. John M. Read was nominated on February 8, 1845, and there was a motion to consider the nomination in the Senate on January 21, 1845, but the motion was unsuccessful and no other action was taken.