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Article: Medal honors easy nominee to high court
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 15, 1987
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Not all nominations to the Supreme Court have met with the
strong opposition experienced by Judges Robert Bork and Douglas
Ginsburg. History relates a 1932 case in which the sole controversy
was over who could pay the highest compliment to the nominee,
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo.
On Monday, Feb. 15, 1932, President Herbert Hoover nominated
Cardozo, then chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeal, to
the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the
retirement of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The nomination reached the Senate in the afternoon and was
immediately referred to committee, which reported favorably to the
Senate on the following day. Contemporary press ...