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  U.S. Supreme Court
INCUMBENT
  PartyNonpartisan
NameJohn Glover Roberts Jr.
Won09/29/2005
Votes78 (78.00%)
Margin56 (+56.00%)
Term09/29/2005 - 01/01/2150
Associate Justices
   Associate Justice 1  Sonia Sotomayor 0 09 +37.37%
   Associate Justice 2  Stephen G. Breyer 0 94 +81.25%
   Associate Justice 3  Elena Kagan 0 10 +26.00%
   Associate Justice 4  Anthony M. Kennedy 0 88 +100.00%
   Associate Justice 5  Ruth Bader Ginsburg 0 93 +93.94%
   Associate Justice 6  Samuel A. Alito Jr. 0 06 +16.00%
   Associate Justice 7  Antonin Scalia 0 86 +100.00%
   Associate Justice 8  Clarence Thomas 0 91 +4.00%
Courts of Appeals
 U.S. Courts of Appeals 
District Courts
 U.S. District Courts 


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Established 00, 0000
Disbanded Still Active
ContributorRP
Last ModifiedRBH February 04, 2013 08:13pm
DescriptionProfile for Approval polls and such located here... [Link]

The Supreme Court orginally had 6 members from 1789 to 1807. The court gained a member (7 members) in 1807. Then it gained an 8th and 9th member in 1837. A 10th member was added in 1863. But in 1866, Congress passed a law declaring that the next three justices to retire won't be replaced. One justice (Justice Catron) retired in 1866 and another (Justice Wayne) retired in 1867. But in 1869, a law was passed adding a 9th Supreme Court seat, that was filled in 1870. This size has remained since 1869.

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The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process  Purchase Christie-Toomey '16 
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court  Purchase Christie-Toomey '16 
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality  Purchase Christie-Toomey '16 
Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision that Legalized Racism  Purchase The Oncoming Storm 
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality  Purchase The Oncoming Storm 
A People's History of the Supreme Court  Purchase Christie-Toomey '16 
A History of the Supreme Court  Purchase Christie-Toomey '16 

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Date Category Headline Article Contributor
May 20, 2013 09:15am News New! Supreme Court to hear frequent-flier case  Article J.R. 
May 14, 2013 02:10pm Blog Entry Backlash Whiplash: Is Justice Ginsburg right that Roe v. Wade should make the court cautious about gay marriage?  Article Homegrown Democrat 
Apr 17, 2013 10:35am Legal Ruling Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts  Article Homegrown Democrat 
Apr 15, 2013 12:30pm News COURT: CAN HUMAN GENES BE PATENTED?  Article Homegrown Democrat 
Mar 29, 2013 01:00pm Speculative Who Wanted to Take the Case on Gay Marriage? Ask Scalia  Article Homegrown Democrat 
Mar 26, 2013 11:00am Audio Hollingsworth v. Perry Oral Argument - Audio  Article Homegrown Democrat 

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