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....
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who replaced retired Justice David Souter, has begun her term on October 5, 2009. It cites that Sotomayor is the first Hispanic individual and third woman justice in the high court'...
One of the closest watched disputes before the Supreme Court this term follows a June 2022 decision in which the court's conservative majority expanded the scope of the Second Amendment andimposed a new standardfor lower courts to apply when deciding whether firearms restrictions are wi...
But the Justice Department's use of that law is now under scrutiny from the Supreme Court, which is considering whether federal prosecutors can apply the obstruction law, passed in the wake of the Enron scandal, to the Jan. 6 attack. ...
Supreme Court Justice (Crazy Horse, J.) and Dissents Not Written—The Environmental Term of 2003-2004If I survive impeachment and other calamities, I hope to be back at this post next year. Earth is the mother of life and she needs a voice on this Court. These Justices do not provide...
The majority of the court, often led by Chief Justice John Roberts, pulled itself back from setting off the legal version of an atomic bomb. In key cases the court maintained the status quo instead of speeding the country to the right. To be sure, the majority’s decision to maintain the...
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the most senior member of the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing and staunch defender of anonpartisan judiciary, will retire from the bench at the end of the current term, fulfilling the wish of Democrats who lobbied for his exit and clearing the way for Preside...
There probably won’t be a decision until June, so there’s no sense going into great detail now. But there are a couple of things worth noting: When you grease the way for a case to make it to the Supreme Court, you wind up with a greasy Supreme Court case. Legally, this was a...
In November, the court adopted its first code of ethics. The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice. Republicans have focused for years on remaking the f...