Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
The Nomination of Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
The Nomination of Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 1167
Book Description
Errata , The Nomination of Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, S. Hrg. 111-1044, June 28-30, and July 1, 2010, 111-2 Hearing, *
Author: Confirmation Hearings on the Nominations of Thomas Perrelli, Nominee to be Associate Attorney General of the United States and Elena Kagan, Nominee to be Solicitor General of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
United States Women Supreme Court Justices
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: Booksllc.Net
ISBN: 9781230777160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor. Excerpt: Sonia Maria Sotomayor (, Spanish: born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice. Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City and is of Puerto Rican descent. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor at the Yale Law Journal. She was an advocate for the hiring of Latino faculty at both schools. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York for four and a half years before entering private practice in 1984. She played an active role on the boards of directors for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the State of New York Mortgage Agency, and the New York City Campaign Finance Board. Sotomayor was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, and her nomination was confirmed in 1992. In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her nomination was slowed by the Republican majority in the United States Senate, but she was eventually confirmed in 1998. On the Second Circuit, Sotomayor heard appeals in more than 3,000 cases and wrote about 380 opinions. Sotomayor has taught at the New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School. In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace retired Justice David Souter. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate in August 2009 by a vote of 68-31. On the...
Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 1604
Book Description
Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
Author: Jody FederPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Louis D. Brandeis
Author: Melvin I. UrofskyPublisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805211950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
As a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a family of reformers who came to the United States to escape European anti-Semitism, established the way modern law is practiced. He was an early champion of the right to privacy and pioneer the idea of pro bono work by attorneys. Brandeis invented savings bank life insurance in Massachusetts and was a driving force in the development of the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Reserve Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade Commission. Brandeis witnessed and suffered from the anti-Semitism rampant in the United States in the early twentieth century, and with the outbreak of World War I, became at age fifty-eight the head of the American Zionist movement. During the brutal six-month congressional confirmation battle that ensued when Woodrow Wilson nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1916, Brandeis was described as “a disturbing element in any gentlemen’s club.” But once on the Court, he became one of its most influential members, developing the modern jurisprudence of free speech and the doctrine of a constitutionally protected right to privacy and suggesting what became known as the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states. In this award-winning biography, Melvin Urofsky gives us a panoramic view of Brandeis’s unprecedented impact on American society and law.
Inside the Supreme Court
Author: Jenna TolliPublisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
ISBN: 1499468652
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The rule of law is a core component of any modern society, and the judges who interpret laws have a difficult job. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the United States. This book offers a discussion of one of America's most notable institutions, explaining what the court does and how justices are selected. Some of its most famous cases are highlighted. Guided by accessible text and vibrant full-color photographs, readers will explore this important branch of the federal government.
Justice on the Brink
Author: Linda GreenhousePublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0593447948
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The gripping story of the Supreme Court’s transformation from a measured institution of law and justice into a highly politicized body dominated by a right-wing supermajority, told through the dramatic lens of its most transformative year, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning law columnist for The New York Times—with a new preface by the author “A dazzling feat . . . meaty, often scintillating and sometimes scary . . . Greenhouse is a virtuoso of SCOTUS analysis.”—The Washington Post In Justice on the Brink, legendary journalist Linda Greenhouse gives us unique insight into a court under stress, providing the context and brilliant analysis readers of her work in The New York Times have come to expect. In a page-turning narrative, she recounts the twelve months when the court turned its back on its legacy and traditions, abandoning any effort to stay above and separate from politics. With remarkable clarity and deep institutional knowledge, Greenhouse shows the seeds being planted for the court’s eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, expansion of access to guns, and unprecedented elevation of religious rights in American society. Both a chronicle and a requiem, Justice on the Brink depicts the struggle for the soul of the Supreme Court, and points to the future that awaits all of us.