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  2. Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court nomination - Wikipedia

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    Marshall became the first African American member of the Supreme Court. [9] Afterwards, on September 1, 1967 Justice Hugo Black privately administered the constitutional oath to Marshall, allowing him to be placed on the Supreme Court's payroll. On October 1, 1967, at the start of the Court's new term, Marshall was given the judicial oath and ...

  3. Thurgood Marshall - Wikipedia

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    Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.

  4. List of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States

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    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 ...

  5. Surprising Personal Facts About Supreme Court Justices - AOL

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    Current Justice Elena Kagan — at 5-foot-3, she was called "shorty" by the 6-foot-2 Thurgood Marshall, who retired from the court in the early '90s — seemed to set her sights on the bench from ...

  6. List of confirmation votes for the Supreme Court of the ...

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    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.

  7. Civil rights experts say replacing Roger Taney statue with ...

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    The bill directs the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to replace Taney’s bust with that of Thurgood Marshall, who served as the Supreme Court’s first African American justice from ...

  8. Nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the ...

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    Of his first six Supreme court appointments in 1789, two were from the East, two from the Mid-Atlantic and two from the South. From 1789 until 1971, with the exception of the 1865–76 Reconstruction Era , there was always a southerner on the Court; similarly, from 1789 through 1932 there was always a New Englander as well. [ 21 ]

  9. Ohio Senate goes after Supreme Court’s amendment ruling - AOL

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    That comes six weeks after the Ohio Supreme Court said ruling on the ... The court said Yost’s role in the citizen-led amendment process is to determine whether a summary of the petition is fair ...