DBWI: JFK was assasinated

Earl Warren might still be Chief Justice today if JFK had died. By late 1967 he wanted to step down; but
if it seemed likely that the 1968 presidential election would be won by a Republican- especially Richard
Nixon, who Warren loathed- Warren would had stayed on rather than risking a chance that the court
would then be headed by a Conservative who would undo all Warren had accomplished. But with JFK
very much alive, Warren felt it was safe to leave, in that he was certain JFK would pick- & be able to
get confirmed as well- a liberal to succeed him. Which indeed turned out to be the case, as JFK
elevated Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg into the Chief Justice spot.
 
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