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The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom constitute a quorum. [1] [2] Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution grants plenary ...
Clarence Thomas. Associate Justice. Samuel A. Alito, Jr. Associate Justice. Sonia Sotomayor. Associate Justice. Elena Kagan. Associate Justice. Neil M. Gorsuch. Associate Justice. Brett M. Kavanaugh. Associate Justice. Amy Coney Barrett. Associate Justice. Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Oct 24, 2012 · Associate Justices. Name State App't From Appointed by President Judicial Oath Taken Date Service Terminated; Rutledge, John: South Carolina: Washington (a) February 15, 1790: ... Chief Justice Rutledge is included because he took his oaths, presided over the August Term of 1795, and his name appears on two opinions of the Court for that Term. ...
Associate justice is the designation given to a justice on a judicial panel who is not the chief justice. Most commonly, the term is used to describe one of the eight associate justices on the Supreme Court of the United States, although many state courts of last resort also designate the judges on their judicial panels as “chief justice ...
When the Judiciary Act of 1789 created the U.S. Supreme Court, it consisted of six members: a Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. Over the next several decades, the size of the Court fluctuated before settling at its current size of nine members with the Judiciary Act of 1869.
Jun 30, 2022 · June 30, 20224:42 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. By. Michael Levitt. , Mallory Yu. 1-Minute Listen. Playlist. Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice Thursday, filling...
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. On April 7, 2022, a bipartisan group of ...
