(The last justices who were not judges were Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William Rehnquist, who were nominated to the court on the same day in 1971 by Richard Nixon. I wasn't even a year old).
For her prescience, Born was excoriated by Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, as well as by the Clinton sub-cabinet official who has been nominated to chair the same CFTC, Gary Gensler, former Treasury Undersecretary.
Senate Democrats responded by holding up the nomination of CIA's top lawyer and a former CIA official who was nominated to serve in the same capacity at the Department of Defense.
It is probable he would have won had he not had the misfortune to be nominated at the same time as Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln.
If Clarence Thomas, who was 43 when nominated, continues to the same age as the justice he replaced (Thurgood Marshall, 83) he will serve 40 years, eclipsing the court record of 36 (William Douglas).
Judge Roger Gregory, an African American lawyer from Richmond, Va., won Senate approval to a permanent judgeship on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, a year after President Clinton nominated him to the same post.
I called and sent email to the Republican National Committee a couple of times on Tuesday, to see whether the party Mr. Trump will soon be nominated to lead would carry out the same bans, but I did not get a return call.
A total of 24 women were nominated (some people nominated the same writers); of those, 19 were deemed eligible for consideration.
MPs who are couples will be obliged to nominate the same main home and will only be able to claim one person's accommodation allowance between them.
Still, I imagine it was an honour for both pictures just to be nominated in the same category as Ghost.
