32-37) on Justice Fortas’s connections to “financial manipulator” Louis Wolfson. That article is widely credited with leading to calls for Fortas’s impeachment and to his resignation.

One justice, Abe Fortas, resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 amid a controversy over receiving $20,000 from a Wall Street financier. An impeachment, though, has only happened once, to Justice ...

1969—Mired in scandal, Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas announces his resignation from the Court. Fortas’s resignation comes less than a year after President Lyndon B. Johnson’s unsuccessful ...

First, Justice Abe Fortas resigned from the High Court after he was accused of unethical financial dealings with a foundation setup by financier Louis Wolfson. Chief Justice Earl Warren retired in ...