Supreme Court Information & FactsThe Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal judiciary. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with ...
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When the first session of the Court convened in 1790, the tradition of justices wearing wigs still lingered. Justice William Cushing was the only justice to arrive at the court wearing the white wig he had worn on the Massachusetts bench. The ribbing he took from boys outside the court app...
U.S. Supreme Court justices name (chief justices in italics)term of service*appointed by president *The date the justice took the judicial oath is here used as the beginning date of service, for until that oath is taken the justice is not vested with the prerogatives of the office. Justi...
(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...
Sonia Sotomayor associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2009. She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The daughter of parents who moved to New York City from Puerto Rico, Sotomayor was raised
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There’s no timeframe for when the court will issue a ruling, but the court has moved quickly throughout the case. Here’s where the court’s ideological factions stand: The right flank There were few, if any, surprises among the group of justices that make up the court’s furthest-rig...
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