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On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
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 ...
The longest vacancy during this time frame, and the longest since the Supreme Court was expanded to nine members in 1869, was the 422-day vacancy between the death of Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016, and the swearing-in of Neil Gorsuch on April 10, 2017. [107] Overall, it was the eighth-longest vacancy period in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The confirmation votes for Justices Antonin Scalia, the most prominent conservative jurist on the court for the last quarter century, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, his counterpart on the left, were ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. This article is part of a series on the Supreme Court of the United States The Court History Procedures Nomination and confirmation Judiciary Committee review Demographics Ideological leanings of justices Lists of decisions Supreme Court building Current membership Chief Justice John ...
The confirmation processes for Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Kagan and Sotomayor lasted between 65 and 89 days from nomination to vote. The shortest confirmation process in recent memory was that ...
The Senate's confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court concludes her historic nomination to become the nation's first Black female justice.
To address concerns about his nomination, Stone proposed that he answer questions of the Senate Judiciary Committee in person. [1] The nomination was returned by the Senate to committee on January 26, 1925. On January 28, Stone became the first Supreme Court nominee to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on their nomination. [5]