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Among the current members of the court, Clarence Thomas's tenure of 12,165 days (33 years, 111 days) [B] is the longest, while Ketanji Brown Jackson's 957 days (2 years, 226 days) [B] is the shortest. The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office.
Because appointees to the short-lived United States Commerce Court were duly appointed as United States circuit judges, they are counted as circuit judges.Those individuals appointed to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the United States Court of Claims during the period those courts existed as Article III courts are counted as circuit judges.
The longest vacancy during this time frame, and the longest since the Supreme Court was expanded to nine members in 1869, was the 422-day vacancy between the death of Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016, and the swearing-in of Neil Gorsuch on April 10, 2017. [107] Overall, it was the eighth-longest vacancy period in U.S. Supreme Court history.
A term of the Supreme Court commences on the first Monday of each October, and continues until June or early July of the following year. Each term consists of alternating periods of around two weeks known as "sittings" and "recesses"; justices hear cases and deliver rulings during sittings, and discuss cases and write opinions during recesses ...
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. On February 13, 2016, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly while at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Shafter, Texas. [12] [13] He was the second of three Supreme Court justices to die in office during the 21st century: following Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 2005; and followed by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020.
Louis B. Butler: Butler unsuccessfully ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2000 and lost by a wide margin. [187] He was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2004, but narrowly lost the 2008 election to retain the seat. [188] On September 30, 2009, President Obama nominated Butler to serve on the District Court.
The following sortable table [a] lists the lifetime percentage liberal scores of Supreme Court justices as compiled in the Supreme Court Database. [48] [49] The table shows data for justices whose service began at or after the 1946 term; the data ends with the 2016–2017 term.
This was the fourteenth term of Chief Justice Roberts's tenure and the first term for Justice Kavanaugh. The Court began its term with a vacant seat following the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy on July 31, 2018. The seat was filled by Brett Kavanaugh on October 6, 2018.