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Today in Supreme Court History: July 25, 1965
7/25/1965: Justice Arthur J. Goldberg resigns.

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The road not taken.
LBJ pressured Goldberg to resign for political reasons & to get his friend Fortas on the Court. The whole thing did not work out long-term and caused multiple problems. Oh well.
Goldberg had a few notable opinions, including his concurring opinion (with the assistance of his law clerk, Stephen Breyer) in Griswold v. Connecticut. Goldberg also played a role in initiating an extended litigation effort against the death penalty.
After he left the Court, he took part in an infamously bad oral argument. Goldberg is listed at Oyez.com arguing two other cases, including the Steel Seizure Cases.
He died in 1990.
I have read that LBJ appealed to Justice Goldberg by suggesting that his appointment as Ambassador to the United Nations would work to the benefit of Israel -- encouraging him to resign to create a vacancy for Fortas.
LBJ later appointed Ramsey Clark as Attorney General, prompting his father, Justice Tom Clark, to resign to avoid any suggestion of conflict. That created the vacancy to which Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall.
LBJ knew how to play the Washington power game.
Alan Dershowitz was a Goldberg clerk.
He worked on Rudolph v. Alabama, which was originally a much more comprehensive abolitionist text.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/375/889/
Goldberg's "seat" eventually was held by Breyer and then Jackson.
That was the traditional "Jewish seat" on the court, having been held by Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Goldberg and Abe Fortas. After Harry Blackmun succeeded Fortas, Stephen Breyer later held the seat.