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On April 9, 2010, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he would retire at the conclusion of the Supreme Court's term in June 2010. [39] This announcement had been widely anticipated since September 2009 when Stevens confirmed that he had hired only a single law clerk for the Supreme Court term beginning in October 2010. [40] (Full ...
Sotomayor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 6, 2009 by a 68–31 vote, and was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts on August 8, 2009, becoming the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court. [1] When nominated, Sotomayor was a sitting judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a position to which she had ...
On March 16, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who had died one month earlier. At the time of his nomination, Garland was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit .
Garland, 63, has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997.
In a guest post on the independent scotusblog.com, Obama outlined the top qualities he is looking for in a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama pledges to push ahead with Supreme Court ...
The president's selection of Garland could sway some Republicans drawn to his center-left views in a court that lost one of its most vocal conservatives.
The total number of Obama Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate is 329, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 55 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 268 judges to the United States district courts, and four judges to the United States Court of International Trade. Obama ...
On July 26, 2011, Governor Jerry Brown nominated Liu to a seat on the Supreme Court of California, [133] and he was sworn in on September 1, 2011. [134] Obama nominated U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to the Ninth Circuit seat to which Liu had been nominated, [135] and the Senate confirmed her without opposition on May 7, 2012. [136]