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She was grilled with a range of questions related to abortion, gun rights, and court-packing. [56] Jackson, who sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers, stated that if confirmed, she would recuse herself from the Supreme Court's review of Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. [57]
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
With the exception of temporary recess appointments, in order for a Justice to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court, they must be approved by a vote of the United States Senate after being nominated by the president of the United States Senate. Not all nominees put forward by presidents have advanced to confirmation votes.
During the first day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) criticized the Supreme Court’s actions over the past few decades.
During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, quizzed her on critical race theory, an academic study of racism’s systemic impact that ...
Cruz has said Luttig, who said that overturning the 2020 election would've caused a "paralyzing constitutional crisis," is "like a father to me." Cruz has said Luttig, who said that overturning ...
President Bill Clinton made two appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, both during his first term. On March 19, 1993, Associate Justice Byron White announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status), which ultimately took effect June 28, 1993. [1]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg officially accepting the nomination as associate justice from President Bill Clinton on June 14, 1993. Once a Supreme Court vacancy opens, the president discusses the candidates with advisors, Senate leaders and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as a matter of senatorial courtesy, before selecting a nominee,. In ...