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Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, October 11, 12 and 13, 1991. Part 4 of 4 parts. J-102-40. Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary; US Government Printing Office (1993); ISBN 0-16-040838-5
The nomination and confirmation of justices to the Supreme Court of the United States involves several steps, the framework for which is set forth in the United States Constitution. Specifically, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 , provides that the president of the United States nominates a justice and that the United States Senate provides ...
With the exception of temporary recess appointments, in order for a Justice to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court, they must be approved by a vote of the United States Senate after being nominated by the president of the United States Senate. Not all nominees put forward by presidents have advanced to confirmation votes.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
The Democratic lawmakers had made their request concerning Thomas, a member of the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority, in an April 2023 letter following reports by ProPublica and others ...
Republican defenders of Thomas have been highlighting what Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at Tuesday's hearing called “a concentrated effort by the left to delegitimize the court,” which ...
As of 2024, Thomas is the most recent Supreme Court justice to be confirmed by a Senate controlled by the opposing party of the appointing president. The 99 days during which Thomas's nomination was pending in the Senate was the second-longest of the 16 nominees receiving a final vote since 1975, second only to Bork's 108 days. [136]
(Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday temporarily blocked a judge's order requiring Senator Lindsey Graham to testify to a grand jury in Georgia in a criminal ...