We Should Know Our Supreme Court Justices Series: View from Capitol Hill
Under the Constitution, US Supreme Court justices are appointed to the court for life. The Court is comprised of the Chief Justice of the US and eight Associate Justices. The Chief Justice is the highest judicial official in the federal government and acts as judge in presidential impeachments....
Nine justices serve on the high court, one chief justice, and eight associate justices. All justices are appointed by the President and must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Presidents often nominate individuals who share a similar political ideology. President George W. Bush, who appointed Sam...
a measure intended to preserve U.S. neutrality in theNapoleonic Wars. In Supreme Court cases Johnson usually agreed with Marshall’s insistence on broad federal power unhampered by state action. More than his fellowjustices, however, Johnson favored cooperation rather than antagonism between federal ...
(through attrition) of the court to seven justices to ensure that PresidentAndrew Johnson, whom the House of Representatives later impeached and the Senate only narrowly acquitted, could not appoint a new justice. The number of justices reached eight before Congress, after Johnson had left office...
The seats of the Supreme Court justices. (Fred Schilling/US Supreme Court) Justice Ginsburg died due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer after serving 27 years on the Supreme Court. The second woman ever named to the high court, she was appointed by former President Bill Clinto...
The Supreme Court appeared to sharply veer against the Colorado voters challenging former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for office. Justices on both the left and right raised pointed questions to Jason Murray, the lawyer arguing in favor of Colorado's position, about the “extraordin...
Jan. 23, 198812 AM PT Share I am an attorney in practice now for more than eight years and I am a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. I can understand the high court’s rationale in holding that “educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising editorial control”...
The Supreme Court justices are back from vacation. They’ve picked up their robes from the cleaners — Alito’s had a pesky mustard stain — and are reassembling …
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