This president appointed more Supreme Court justices than any other
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How many Supreme Court Justices would a President Trump get to ...  Aug 5, 2016 ... This Supreme Court is older than nearly any other on record. ... Court justices that could be appointed by the next president, he usually says "three or four. ... plan to vote for Trump are more likely to say they're doing so to keep...
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Presidents have appointed Supreme Court justices in election years ...  Feb 15, 2016 ... Following Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, ... Rule that states no judicial nominee would be considered that close to a presidential election. ... Others may use the term to mean the year preceding an election  so ... All told, President Reagan had more than 18 months to fill the vacancy...
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history-lists/7-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-us-supreme-court  Oct 8, 2013 ... The youngest associate justice ever appointed was Joseph Story, who was ... Harvard has produced more members of the court than any other law school; ... The president of the United States has the sole power to nominate...
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List of Presidents of the United States by judicial appointments ...  List of Presidents of the United States by judicial appointments. As the first president, George Washington appointed the entire federal judiciary. His record of ten Supreme Court appointments still stands. President Ronald Reagan appointed 376 federal judges, more than any other president.
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Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia  The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court of the United States. ..... No president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has made a recess appointment to the ... Three presidents have appointed justices who collectively served more than 100 ..... (The same procedure applies to judges of other federal courts.)...
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Election-Year Supreme Court Nominations Are Rare - The New York ...  Feb 13, 2016 ... Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died on Saturday at a resort in Texas. ... with prominent Republicans calling for the next president to make a nomination. ... President Ronald Reagan and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in 1988. ..... My colleague Nino Scalia was devoted to his family, friends, our court...
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Drama, controversy marked the first Supreme Court justices  Sep 24, 2016 ... President George Washington named six Supreme Court justices who were ... The first Chief Justice was John Jay, and the associate justices were John Rutledge, William Cushing, John Blair Jr., Robert Harrison, and James Wilson. ... Jay left the court in 1795 after finally winning a gubernatorial election.
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William Howard Taft - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  As U.S. president from 1909 to 1913 and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ... William Howard Taft became the only man in history to hold the highest post in both ... Theodore Roosevelt twice offered Taft a Supreme Court appointment, but he ... In 1904, he agreed to return and become Roosevelt's secretary of war, as...
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Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates - Wikipedia  President Barack Obama has made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the ... And there's no indication he's not a man of great character. .... NPR reported, "Most observers of the Supreme Court agree about one thing: The next .... justices are allowed up to four law clerks while retired justices have only one.
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Frequently Asked Questions on Justices - Supreme Court of the ...  How many Justices have there been? ... Who was the youngest Associate Justice appointed? ... Has anyone ever served as both President and Chief Justice?
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List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia  The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States. Its membership consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight ... John Rutledge and Charles Evans Hughes appear twice because of their non-consecutive ...... This page was last modified on 25 October 2016, at 02:56.
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Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates - Wikipedia  President Bill Clinton made two appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, both ... 1 Overview; 2 Politics; 3 Ruth Bader Ginsburg nomination; 4 Stephen Breyer nomination; 5 Names frequently mentioned .... More important, she was a pioneer in the legal fight for women's rightsa female Thurgood Marshall.
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History News Network | Supreme Court Nominations: Questions and ...  Feb 13, 2016 ... How many people have been appointed to the Supreme Court? ... President Barack Obama is a Democrat. ... nearly a century nominations to the Court usually flew through with barely a bump. ... Carter was the only full-term president not to have the opportunity to ... In the 20th century rejections were rare.
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If Hillary Clinton Gets Her Way With the Supreme Court - Newsweek  May 24, 2016 ... If Hillary Clinton is elected, she may have the opportunity to appoint three or possibly four justices to the ... Article II of the Constitution, the executive branch, will supplant Article I, the legislative branch. ... 1 Quick Trick to Find Out If They're Unfaithful .... Justices change once appointed and follow precedent.
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Here's how Supreme Court nominations work - Raw Story  Feb 13, 2016 ... How many people have been appointed to the Supreme Court? ... President Barack Obama is a Democrat. ... Carter was the only full-term president not to have the opportunity to select a justice (just a few months after Carter left office Potter Stewart resigned, ... In the 20th century rejections have been rare.
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William Rehnquist - Supreme Court Justice - Biography.com  Nov 20, 2014 ... William Rehnquist was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon in 1971. He was elevated to the post of chief justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
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A Brief Overview of the Supreme Court  The number of Associate Justices is currently fixed at eight (28 U. S. C. 1). Power to nominate the Justices is vested in the President of the United States, and...
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Free Flashcards about SUPREME COURT - StudyStack  Free flashcards to help memorize facts about SUPREME COURT. ... WHITE WAS WORKING AT THIS POSTION WHEN JFK APPOINTED HIM TO THE SUPREME COURT ... THE 2000 SUPREME COURT DECISION IN THIS CASE, INVOLVED VOTE-COUNTING GUIDELINES AND DUE PROCESS OF LAW, BUSH V. GORE.
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William Howard Taft | whitehouse.gov  William Howard Taft. William Howard Taft was elected the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930), the only person to have served in both of these offices.
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How Judges and Justices Are Chosen [ushistory.org]  The Senate Judiciary Committee reviews the president's nominees to the federal ... Legendary Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that a Supreme Court Justice ... appoint judges who seem to have a similar political ideology to their own. ... In 1981, Ronald Reagan appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court,...
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William Howard Taft - 10th Chief Justice of the United States - Bio ...  ... the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. ... As such, he became the only President to serve as Chief Justice, and thus is ... "Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."