When nominated to the Supreme Court, both had more than a decade of service on the federal bench.
In order to have any hope of being nominated to the Supreme Court, so must any potential nominee.
The president is elected to a second term, and then is nominated to the Supreme Court.
"Now they are the ones nominating pointy-headed intellectuals to the Supreme Court."
President George Bush nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1991.
President Johnson had named him to that position in 1965, two years before nominating him to the Supreme Court.
Kennedy formally nominated White to the Supreme Court on April 3, 1962.
Bush nominated the following people to the Supreme Court of the United States:
The long delay in releasing it became an issue even last September at his confirmation hearings after he was nominated to the Supreme Court.
