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Americans mourned the loss of legendary U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she died in office at age 87 in September. Similarly, Justice Antonin Scalia died at age 79 in 2016 ...
The Court noted that "[f]ederal judges are appointed for life, not for eternity". [12] Traditionally, law clerks of the deceased judge may be reassigned to other judges on the same court, or may be held over in chambers to work for the successor appointed to replace the deceased judge, although there is no legal requirement or guarantee that ...
John P. Slough. John P. Slough was appointed by President Andrew Johnson to serve as chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court.In 1867, William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Territorial Legislative Council, took part in a campaign to denigrate the judge, and authored a resolution in the legislature to have the judge removed, leading Slough to slander Rynerson publicly.
Thomas M. Reavley, the oldest active federal judge who served for 41 years on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has died. Reavley died on Tuesday in Houston, the Texas Supreme Court announced.
At 1:38 a.m., [4] Roske called 9-1-1 and was connected with Montgomery County's emergency communications center. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Roske told the operator that he was having suicidal thoughts, that he was armed, and that he had traveled from California to Maryland "to kill a specific United States Supreme Court justice". [ 2 ]
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in March 28, 1992. - Diana Walker/The Chronicle Collection/Getty Images O’Connor also wrote a 5-4 opinion upholding the University of Michigan Law ...
The caisson bearing the casket of John F. Kennedy moving down the White House drive on the way to St. Matthew's Cathedral on November 25, 1963.. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and ...
Charles Ommanney/Getty Images Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died. She was 93. “Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sandra Day O ...