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Regarding the existence of the files, Laurence Silberman, who was serving as the Deputy Attorney General in the Ford Administration, later a Judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, said in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece: "The House Judiciary Committee demanded I testify about those...

Thanks for the article! It's useful. Yeah, Souter's "stealth" candidacy was definitely an effect of Bork's raucous hearings, and it led directly to the Federalist Society vetting process we see today. So as of '88, the Court would look like: Chief William Rehnquist; Associates William Brennan...

Robert Bork became a political verb, Antonin Scalia one of the most influential Supreme Court Justices of the last twenty years, if not in history. But while both men had their shot at the Court, only one made it. In 1986, Warren Burger stepped down, and the Reagan White House nominated...

There were plans to replace Johnson as VP, with Terry Sanford of North Carolina as the name I've heard mentioned the most. But I don't think you could get away with having JFK as Prez and Bobby as the Veep-politically, it would smell, and Bobby would have to change his residence ala Cheney (I...

I honestly think that Kennedy would have done his best to deescalate. Whether he would have been able to, either from domestic/internal pressure and politics, or foreign events forcing his hand, up to debate. UN Ambassador only struck me because that's where Goldberg ended up, and without Abe...

Exactly. I think that RFK's personality is the more interesting angle. A lot of the social justice aspect of his career, against racism, poverty, inequality, that sort of thing, only truly emerges as a facet in the aftermath of the loss of his brother (and Ted's accident, which is underrated in...

Just finished Jeff Greenfield's Then Everything Changed, his possibility of three alternate histories, and it got me thinking about the relationship between the Kennedy brothers. Robert Kennedy was his brother's second-in-command, lieutenant, alter ego, and Jack's death affected Bobby...

I don't think so. Byron White was appointed by JFK, and stated that he wanted a Democrat to appoint his replacement, despite being a member of the Court's conservatives at that moment. And Harry Blackmun was convinced that if he retired under a Republican, Roe v. Wade (Blackmun's legacy...

The Bush '92 one would be interesting. First off, I doubt that Newt Gingrich can unfold his Republican Revolution in '94 with HW in the White House, so his influence in the decade will be muted, at least initially. I don't doubt that Gingrich could play a big role in Congress and the...

:eek: I'm subscribing based on the picture and title alone!

Bill Clinton was considering running for President in 1988, but decided against it at the last minute, following the destruction of Gary Hart and Mario Cuomo's decision not to run. So, if he does decide to run, can he win A) the nomination and B) the Presidency?

Absolutely! No Thomas confirmation hearing circus either. Those are not bad choices at all. You would see a very different Supreme Court. Even if all Hart got was the OTL two seats that Bush had, which turned into David Souter and Clarence Thomas, it brings the Court in a very different...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make Gary Hart President in 1988. Avert the Donna Rice disaster, and whatever else might have made him self-destruct. I'm really interested to see how this might end up.

Damn! I had forgotten about that one! Thanks for posting the exact statute, it's helpful. This is true! Although Cards is operating in a different universe, so maybe Congress didn't pass that legislation there. You're right, but I think if the Kennedy law wasn't on the books, it would...

So, I've read this in a couple of places, but I haven't been able to confirm it, so this is sort of an ask and a What If? Bill Clinton was supposedly considering naming his wife Hillary as Attorney General early in his Administration, an absolute paradigm shift in the perception of what First...

.....maybe a bit, but there's nothing wrong with that! :p Something else that might be crucial-the Supreme Court. Reagan promised to nominate the first woman to the Court, which resulted in Sandra Day O'Connor, the key swing justice for the Court in the Nineties. If Bayh does the same, he...

A President Bayh would be interesting. I actually had an outline of a TL where he was elected in '76, and then his son was elected Prez in his own right in 2008, sort of an echo of the Bush relationship (one-term Presidents as fathers, the son chooses the opposite wing of the political party...

This is a bit of an odd one, and probably not a big divergence, but it occurred to me: what if Hillary Clinton runs in a state that is not New York? Remember, before her run, HRC had no attachment to the Empire State, and was accused of being a carpetbagger. She was born in Illinois, went to...

Watching this with interest! I just finished up an internship with Disney, and all of these ideas are very cool!

YES! Victory! :D Episode Titles: The Day of Death/The Day of Life Time Plague