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Abe Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him after he had worked in government and private law. Fortas resigned from the Court in 1969 after public scrutiny of a proposed paid consulting arrangement and other financial ties, becoming the only Supreme Court justice to resign under that kind of ethical pressure.
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