Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first of the eleven roll call votes to result in a rejection of a nomination was the December 15, 1795 vote on the nomination of John Rutledge for chief justice, and the most recent time was the October 23, 1987 vote on the nomination of Robert Bork.
Wiley Rutledge was nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 11, 1943, after the resignation of James F. Byrnes created a vacancy on the court.
This was the first time that the Senate had voted down a Supreme Court nomination. As of 2024; it remains the only U.S. Supreme Court recess appointment to be subsequently rejected by the Senate. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] All nine Democratic Republican Senators that cast a vote voted to confirm Rutledge, while all but one of the fifteen Federalist Senators ...
Every recess appointed justice was later nominated to the same position, and all but one—John Rutledge in 1795 to be chief justice—was confirmed by the Senate. [5] The 1795 Rutledge nomination was the first Supreme Court nomination to be rejected by the Senate; the most recent nomination to be voted down was that of Robert Bork in 1987. [3]
In yet another historic first, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for the nation’s ...
Rutledge was succeeded in office by Oliver Ellsworth. This was the first time that the Senate rejected a Supreme Court nomination; it remains the only time a "recess appointed" justice was not subsequently confirmed by the Senate. Rutledge's tenure as Chief Justice lasted for only 138 days, and the court only decided two cases under his leadership.
Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing Starts Tomorrow. Prepare for Political Fireworks
Supreme Court hearings are an extreme example of the degeneration of political discourse brought on by 24-hour cable news and well-intended C-SPAN. A simple fix for Senate's 'broken' confirmation ...