From left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chief Justice John Roberts participate in a moment of silence during a private ceremony in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court in where the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul ...
The court's most influential conservative, Scalia was nominated in 1986 under President Ronald Reagan, who named him as associate justice. A lawyer by trade, Scalia entered public service in the 1970s as general counsel for President Richard Nixon and as the assistant attorney general. RELATED...
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...
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dies at 99 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.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- A small plane crashed into the ocean near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on Thursday, killing three people, including Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki. Zavascki had risen to prominence in recent months as he was overseeing the country's sweeping probe into...
Former Supreme Court justice Edmund Levy dead at 72TOVAH LAZAROFF
(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 ...
Supreme Court, where she championed gender equality and other liberal causes during 27 years on the bench. She died on Sept. 18, 2020, at age 87 of complications from pancreatic cancer. The future USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg (T-AO 212) will be a John Lewis-class...
Thomas was nominated by former U.S. President George H. W. Bush to succeed Justice Thurgood Marshall and has served the post since 1991. He is the second African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Marshall. The Supreme Court is also under national attention due to the ...
Sandra Day O'Connor, the US Supreme Court Justice who died on Friday aged 93, was once arguably the most powerful woman in America. As the first woman appointed to theUS Supreme Court, O’Connor’s place in history was assured the day in July 1981 that President Ronald Reagan plucked her...