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Since it was established in 1789, 114 persons have served as a justice (associate justice or chief justice) on the Supreme Court; of these, 104 have died. The first death of a justice was that of James Wilson on August 21, 1798, and the most recent was that of Sandra Day O'Connor on December 1, 2023.
Mourners gather at the Supreme Court after the announcement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death Courtroom with Ginsburg's seat draped in black, the day after her death. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87.
John P. Slough. John P. Slough was appointed by President Andrew Johnson to serve as chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court.In 1867 William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Territorial Legislative Council, took part in a campaign to denigrate the judge, and authored a resolution in the legislature to have the judge removed, leading Slough to slander Rynerson publicly.
William J. Hennessy Jr., a veteran sketch artist who gave Americans striking views from inside courtrooms during some of the nation’s most important legal dramas, died on Monday.
A recent Supreme Court ruling means any effort to sue the agents individually for alleged constitutional violations is doomed ... methamphetamine and oxycodone in his system at the time of death ...
Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...
The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals needs to clarify its ruling that Joseph Clifton Smith's death sentence for a 1997 murder must be set aside in light ...