United States Supreme Court Justices The current Supreme Court membership is comprised of nine Supreme Court Justices. One of which is the Chief Justice and the other eight are the Associate Justices. The Justices are Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., was sworn into the Supreme Court on September 29, 2005 and was nominated by President George W. Bush. John Roberts, Jr., took the place of Chief Justice William Renquist after he passed away and the seat became open. His political affiliation is Republican and he has worked for the Reagan Administration and then again for the 1st Bush Administration. He went into private practice when Clinton was elected. He was nominated to the D. C. Circuit Court of appeals and confirmed in 2003. John Roberts, Jr., is the second youngest Chief Justice to be sworn onto the bench at the age of 50. He attended Harvard University and graduated a year early with honors and moved onto Harvard Law School. He is married and has two children. Associate Justice John Paul Stevens was sworn into the Supreme Court on December 19, 1975 and was nominated by President Gerald Ford. He is the oldest member of the current court and he is the second longest serving Justice. He took the place of Associate Justice William O. Douglas who retired. Justice John Paul Stevens political affiliation is Republican but he is considered more liberal than moderate or conservative. He served in the Navy during World War II and earned a bronze star. He started his career working for a law firm and then started his ... ... middle of paper ... ...newest member of the Supreme Court and was nominated by the second President George Bush. He took the place of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. His political affiliation is Republican and was President George Bushs' second choice for this appointment. His career has led him into the positions of Assistant U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Deputy Assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. He then served 15 years on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals before being nominated to the Supreme Court. He attended and graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School. He is married and has two children. Reference: U. S. Supreme Court Justices: A listing of all Supreme Court Justices. Retreived from the World Wide Web at http://www.oyez.org/oyez/portlet/justices/ on February 19, 2006. Copyright 1996 2005 by Jerry Goldman.
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He was the one who asked Congress to pass a law that would make Native Americans move west or follow state laws. After the act was passed, he embarked on enforcing the new law. He thinks this is just and liberal. Also, that it would let Native Americans keep their way of life. He is such a big supporter that he ignored the Supreme Court’s advice.
Prior to accepting his Supreme Court nomination, Justice John Paul Stevens served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. As a Seventh Circuit judge, Stevens only encountered the issue of abortion only once. S...
Justice Clarence Thomas was born in June 1948 and grew up in Georgia. He graduated at Yale Law School and served as the Assistant Attorney General in Missouri, practicing law in the private sector. In 1981 he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education one year later, Justice Thomas was appointed Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by President Ronald Reagan. By 1991 Justice Thomas was nominated by Bush to fill Thurgood Marshall’s seat on the United States Supreme Court.
Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges are elected in nonpartisan statewide elections. Mid-term vacancices are filled by appointment. State law requires that nominees are state residents and have practiced law for a minimum of seven years.
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The Supreme Court, which sees almost 150 petitions per week, called cert petitions, must carefully select the cases that they want to spend their time and effort on (Savage 981). If they didn’t select them carefully, the nine justices would quickly be overrun, so they have put in place a program to weed through the court cases to pick out the small number they will discuss. There are a few criteria that are used to judge whether or not a case will be tried. The first is whether or not the lower courts decided the case based on another one of the Supreme Court’s decisions for they will investigate these in order to withhold or draw back their conclusion that they made in their court case. Another is the case’s party alignment: sometimes the justices will pick cases that will align with their party beliefs, like trying to get a death row inmate off of his death sentence. They also make claims about the “life” of the case- the Supreme Court only hears “live” cases- they do not try to go back in time and re-mark a case that has long since been decided (Savage 981). Lastly, they like to take cases where the lower courts did not decide with one another -these cases can have t o do with interpretations of the law that have been left up to the lower courts and should be specifically defined by the Supreme Court (Savage 982).
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The judicial power, also known back then as The Weakest Branch, was created to achieve an effective collaboration of the powers, what we call now Check and Balances. One of the framers of the Judicial Power was John Marshall. Chief Justice John Marshall is one of the main figures in the history of the US Judicial System. He was the youngest Chief Justices in the history of the United States and was the developer of the most important power of the Supreme Court, The Judicial Review.
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Another interesting piece of knowledge about the Judicial branch is that unlike the Executive and Legislative branches the judicial branch members are appointed by the President of the United States. However, the senate has to approve and elect who the President appoints. While the other branches are picked by the people. A major part of the Judicial Branch is the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court has the most power out of all the other courts in the nation. Some of the powers the Supreme Courts have is that the Court’s decisions cannot be appealed to any authority, as it is the final judicial arbiter in the United States on matters of federal law. However, the Court may consider appeals from the highest state courts or from federal courts. The Court also has original jurisdiction in cases involving ambassadors and other diplomats, and in cases between states. Those are just some of the many powers The supreme court