{"id":159583,"date":"2026-08-05T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/05\/he-left-the-bench-for-the-ballot-then-came-back-for-more\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:43:46","slug":"he-left-the-bench-for-the-ballot-then-came-back-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/05\/he-left-the-bench-for-the-ballot-then-came-back-for-more\/","title":{"rendered":"He Left The Bench For The Ballot, Then Came Back For More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which sitting Supreme Court justice resigned his seat to accept a major party\u2019s presidential nomination?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: After losing a nail biter of an election \u2014 he reportedly went to bed election night convinced he won the election \u2014 this person returned to the Supreme Court (as Chief) 16 years later. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/he-left-the-bench-for-the-ballot-then-came-back-for-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He Left The Bench For The Ballot, Then Came Back For More<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which sitting Supreme Court justice resigned his seat to accept a major party\u2019s presidential nomination?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: After losing a nail biter of an election \u2014 he reportedly went to bed election night convinced he won the election \u2014 this person returned to the Supreme Court (as Chief) 16 years later. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/he-left-the-bench-for-the-ballot-then-came-back-for-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He Left The Bench For The Ballot, Then Came Back For More<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which sitting Supreme Court justice resigned his seat to accept a major party\u2019s presidential nomination? Hint: After losing a nail biter of an election \u2014 he reportedly went to bed election night convinced he won the election \u2014 this person returned to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}