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Oct 11, 2022 · The 2024 United States Supreme Court justices. Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court on Oct. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Seated from left:...
Current Members. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955. He married Jane Sullivan in 1996 and they have two children - Josephine and Jack. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1976 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979.
- Clarence Thomas. On the court since: 23 October 1991. How he got to the court: Thomas was born in a small town in Georgia, and was one of the few African-Americans in attendance during a short stint in seminary and then at Holy Cross College.
- Ketanji Brown Jackson. On the court since: 3 October 2022. How she got to the court: The first black woman to sit on the court in its 233-year history is also the first justice since 1967 to come to the court with extensive experience as a criminal defence attorney.
- Samuel Alito. On the court since: 31 January 2006. How he got to the court: Alito grew up in New Jersey in an Italian immigrant family. While at Princeton University, he was involved in conservative and libertarian groups, as well as the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps.
- Elena Kagan. On the court since: 7 August 2010. How she got to the court: Kagan grew up in New York City. At the age of 12, she convinced her rabbi to hold the synagogue's first formal bat mitzvah, the rite of passage for young women.
Jun 1, 2019 · Justice Samuel Alito narrowly overtook Justice Clarence Thomas as the Supreme Court's most conservative member this term, according to preliminary data that measures judicial ideology. How to read the chart: An analysis by political scientists Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn, known as the Martin-Quinn Score, places judges on an ideological spectrum.
- Sonia Sotomayor. Appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2009, Sotomayor is the most liberal of the current Supreme Court. Per Ballotpedia, Sotomayor's Martin-Quinn score following the 2019-2020 term was -3.48.
- Elena Kagan. By Supreme Court standards, Kagan is fairly liberal. Ballotpedia reported that her Martin-Quinn score was -1.69 following the 2019-2020 term.
- Stephen Breyer. Like Kagan, Breyer, appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1994, is liberal by Supreme Court standards. His Martin-Quinn score is -1.87.
- John Roberts. Now we're getting into the conservative members of the court. I talked about Roberts, the current chief justice, a little in the introduction.
Apr 23, 2021 · Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. Seated from left: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice...
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This graphical timeline depicts the progression of the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. [ 9 ][ 10 ] Information regarding each justice's predecessors, successors, and fellow justices, as well as their tenure on the court, can be gleaned (and comparisons between justices drawn) from it.
