the long awaited 1996 election will be its own book
Written in-universe by Freak Power candidate Hunter S. Thompson
the long awaited 1996 election will be its own book
Who's on the Supreme Court at this moment?
Who's on the Supreme Court at this moment?
In order of their appointments:
Byron R. White - (Kennedy appointee, 1962, replacing Charles Whittaker)
Jack B. Brooks - (Humphrey appointee, 1971, replacing Hugo Black)
William J. Guste - (Howell appointee, 1975, replacing William O. Douglas)
James L. Buckley - (MacBride appointee, 1978, replacing Lorna Lockwood)
Robert H. Bork - (Cohn appointee, 1981, replacing Potter Stewart)
Orrin Hatch - (Cohn appointee, 1983, replacing Archibald Cox)
[CJ]George J. Mitchell - (McKeithen appointee, 1989, replacing Frank M. Johnson)
Dennis Archer - (McKeithen appointee, 1990, replacing Thurgood Marshall)
Sam Nunn - (McKeithen appointee, 1990, replacing William J. Brennan, Jr.)
Damn, McKeithen gets a majority of the court by himself.We also know that White and Guste leave the Court in 1993, per the article posted above by @Kaiser Julius.
Is this great TL dead? Can someone revive this?
i know this is reaching back quite a ways, but smathers is mentioned as a founding ncp member here and then as a democrat in all subsequent updates. anyways thanks for writing this timeline, it's really interestingThe second biggest piece of political news in 1981, eclipsed only by the Manson attack and MacBride's subsequent resignation, was the formation of the National Conservative Caucus in both the House and Senate. While the House had many non-Democrat and non-Republican members who merged into one, the Senate drew mostly from the most conservative Democratic and Republican candidates and the few non-Democratic/Republican members.
Almost immediately after their announcement, they were mocked and tarred as the "New Confederate Party" for their membership. The 1981 defectors were:
1. Pat Robertson (C-VA)
2. Jeremiah Denton (R-AL)
3. John Stennis (D-MS)
4. John B. Williams (I-MS)
5. George P. Mahoney (D-MD)
6. Harry Boivin (D-OR)
7. Jesse Helms (D-NC)
8. George Smathers (D-FL)
9. John Tower (R-TX)
10. Odell McBrayer (D-TX)
11. John Porter East (D-NC)
12. Herman Talmadge (D-GA)
13. Larry McDonald (D-GA)
14. Lucien DiFazio (C-CT)
(...)
Is this great TL dead? Can someone revive this?
I assure you, a highly competent team of monkeys has been hired to detail fixes to the problem.