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Justice [1] Born Joined Chief Justice Term ends Mandatory retirement [a] Appointed by Law school 7 Debra L. Stephens, Chief Justice: 1965 (age 59–60) January 1, 2008: 2025–present, 2020–2021 2026 2040 Christine Gregoire (D) Gonzaga: 4 Charles W. Johnson, Associate Chief Justice March 16, 1951 (age 73) January 14, 1991 – 2026 2026 — [b]
As of January 20, 2025, the United States Senate has confirmed 234 Article III judges nominated by Trump: three associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 54 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 174 judges for the United States district courts, and three judges for the United States Court of International Trade.
The decisions reflected a deep and sometimes bitter divide on a court in which conservatives, including three justices appointed by Trump, have a two-to-one advantage over liberals, and seem ...
On June 27, 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, effective July 31, [29] [30] giving Trump an opportunity to send a second Supreme Court nominee to the Senate for confirmation. Kavanaugh was officially nominated on July 9, selected from among a list of "25 highly qualified potential nominees" considered ...
Donald Trump touts his transformation of the U.S. Supreme Court as one of his presidency's greatest accomplishments. With three Trump-appointed justices leading a conservative majority, the court ...
Ginsburg died in September 2020 — and Trump immediately replaced her with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, then 48, cementing the court’s current 6–3 conservative majority right before he lost the ...
Approximately 40 percent of Trump’s appellate nominees clerked for a Supreme Court justice, and about 80 percent clerked on a federal court of appeals. That compares to less than a quarter of Obama’s nominees who clerked on the Supreme Court, and less than half with a federal appellate clerkship.
The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the U.S. state of Washington. The court is composed of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Members of the court are elected to six-year terms. Justices must retire at the end of the calendar year in which they reach the age of 75, per the Washington State ...