Chief Justice
John G. Roberts, Jr..............GWBush...............2005
Associate Justices by Year
Antonin Scalia.....................Reagan................1986
Anthony Kennedy.................Reagan................1988
Clarence Thomas.................GHWBush.............1991
Ruth Bader Ginsburg............Clinton.................1993
Stephen Breyer...................Clinton.................1994
Samuel Alito.......................GWBush...............2006
Sonia Sotomayor.................Obama.................2009
Elena Kagan........................Obama................2010
Chief Justice
John G. Roberts, Jr..............GWBush...............2005
Associate Justices by Year
Antonin Scalia.....................Reagan................1986
Anthony Kennedy.................Reagan................1988
Clarence Thomas.................GHWBush.............1991
Ruth Bader Ginsburg............Clinton.................1993
Stephen Breyer...................Clinton.................1994
Samuel Alito.......................GWBush...............2006
Sonia Sotomayor.................Obama.................2009
Elena Kagan........................Obama................2010
John Roberts, chief justice, appointed by George W. Bush in 2005
Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice, appointed by Obama in 2009
Elena Kagan, associate justice, appointed by Obama in 2010
Samuel Alito, Jr. associate justice, appointed by George W. Bush in 2006
Antonin Scalia, associate justice, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986
Anthony Kennedy, associate justice, appointed by Reagan in 1988
Clarence Thomas, associate justice, appointed by George H. W. Bush in 1991
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice, appointed by Clinton in 1993
Stephen Breyer, associate justice, appointed by Clinton in 1994
Forty of the forty-four US Presidents appointed justices to the US Supreme Court. The only full-term President not to nominate a justice was Jimmy Carter.
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None. Four Presidents appointed two justices each; one President appointed only one of the remaining justices.
Chief Justice
John G. Roberts, Jr..............GWBush...............2005
Associate Justices by Year
Antonin Scalia.....................Reagan................1986
Anthony Kennedy.................Reagan................1988
Clarence Thomas.................GHWBush.............1991
Ruth Bader Ginsburg............Clinton.................1993
Stephen Breyer...................Clinton.................1994
Samuel Alito.......................GWBush...............2006
Sonia Sotomayor.................Obama.................2009
Elena Kagan........................Obama................2010
President George W. Bush appointed current Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in 2005 following the death of then-Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
the president appoints them and the congress questions them
US Supreme Court justices are appointed by the President and approved by a simple majority vote of the Senate. This is intended to insulate the justices from political pressures and conflicts of interest that often accompany popular elections.
No.Article 2 Section 2 of the US Constitution provides that Supreme Court Justices are appointed by the President with the Advice and Consent of the Senate:[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.US Supreme Court Justices are nominated by the current President, presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee for investigation, then accepted or rejected by the US Senate.If a nominee receives a simple majority (51) of the votes, then he or she is commissioned as a Supreme Court Justice. This is a lifetime appointment, and is served until such time as the Justice retires, resigns, dies or is impeached by the House of Representative and tried by the Senate.In some states, like North Carolina, voters elect state supreme court justices to a fixed term of office; in other states, justices are appointed by the state Governor or another legislative body.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Antonin Scalia (1986) Anthony Kennedy (1988)
None of the Associate Justices on the current US Supreme Court are from Kansas. President Benjamin Harrison appointed the on Kansan to the Court, David Josiah Brewer, who served from 1890 until his death in 1910.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president who appointed the second most Supreme Court Justices. He appointed eight justices during his presidency.
Nine Justices Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. There have been 103 Associate Justices in the Court's history.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut seats a total of seven justices - one Chief and six Associates - who are nominated by the Governor from a list compiled by the Judicial Selection Committee, and appointed by the State General Assembly. Justices serve eight-year terms. The current Chief Justice is Chase T. Rogers.
Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices.
Justice are judges. All current and former justices on the US Supreme Court began their careers as lawyers.
There are no current Supreme Court justices who were recess appointments. However, President George Washington appointed John Rutledge as Chief Justice in a recess appointment; his appointment was later rejected by the Senate. President Eisenhower also made three recess appointments to the Supreme Court, all of whom were later confirmed by the Senate.
Required for what? There are no constitutional mandates governing the number of justices seated on the Supreme Court; such details were left to Congress. Congress determined that a Judiciary Act should never allow fewer than six justices; the current legislation requires nine. A quorum of the current Supreme Court requires at least six justices to hear and decide a case.