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The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 116 people who have been appointed and confirmed as justices to the Supreme Court. Some of these characteristics have been raised as an issue since the court was established in 1789.
Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the country's highest federal court. The Court has ultimate—and largely discretionary—appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of U.S. federal law, plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases.
The Supreme Court last decided a case with ties to religion in 2023, siding with a graphic designer in Colorado who wanted to decline to make websites for same-sex weddings.
And as Kavanaugh’s comments indicate, the Supreme Court has regularly sided with churches and other religious groups. Their argument: The Constitution’s bar on the establishment of religion by ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Supreme Court has decided, 7-2, that teachers in Catholic elementary schools are not covered by employment discrimination law. This is a highly important expansion of ...
List of people who have held constitutional office in all three branches of the United States federal government; List of U.S. Supreme Court justices who also served in the U.S. Congress; List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a ...