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Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court (right to left) Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, and Clarence Thomas walk past the coffin of Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court September 7, 2005 in Washington, D.C. The White House Ch...
"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President," he said in a statement. And Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, one of the 2016 presidential candidates, said the responsibi...
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Xinhua) -- John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1975 to 2010, died Tuesday at the age of 99, according to U.S. media.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the bench's ideological conservative known for his fiery comments in and out of the courtroom, has died. He was 79. Scalia was "a brilliant legal mind with a pugnacious style, incisive wit, and colorful opinions," President Barack Obama said Saturday ...
alsoChief Justice n.Abbr.CJ The presiding judge of a high court having several judges, especially the US Supreme Court. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering Supreme Court justice who became the second female on the nation's highest court, the leader of its liberal wing and a pop culture icon known as Notorious R.B.G., died Friday night. She was 87. Ginsburg died surrounded by her family at her home in ...
Gorsuch will be filling in a year-long vacancy left by late Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016. Neil Gorsuch(L) speaks as his wife Marie Louise and President Donald Trump reacts after the swearing-in ceremony at the White House in Washington D.C., the United State...
(redirected from U.S. Supreme Court Justice)Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. Supreme Court of the United States - the highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction ...
Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will become the first African American woman to serve as a justice on the nation's highest court. Once she replaces retiring associate justice Stephen G. Breyer, whom she worked for as a Supreme Co...