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Learn about the nine justices who serve on the highest court of the land, including their biographies, education, and appointments. Find out who is the Chief Justice and who is the most recent addition to the court.
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- Justices
Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief...
- About the Court
The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the...
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Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, and there have been 104 Associate Justices in the Court’s history.
This graphical timeline depicts the progression of the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. [9] [10] Information regarding each justice's predecessors, successors, and fellow justices, as well as their tenure on the court, can be gleaned (and comparisons between justices drawn) from it.
Profiles documenting the personal background, plus nomination and confirmation dates of all current United States Supreme Court justices. The Chief Justice: John G Roberts, Jr.
- Words Per Argument and Number of Speaking Turns
- High Engagement Across All Cases, Especially The Most Divisive Ones
- Comparing Words Counts of New Justices
- Longer Arguments Mean More Speaking Time
- No Strong Correlation Between Spoken Word-Counts and Written Opinions
The graph below shows that Jackson is well out in front of her colleagues in terms of words spoken per argument. It also shows that the court’s liberal bloc — Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor — makes up the top three slots on this measure. Justice Clarence Thomas, who for much of his career remained almost entirely silent during arguments, became an a...
Jackson has been particularly outspoken in the most significant cases argued so far this term. The next graph shows Jackson’s word counts (in blue) in each oral argument compared to each of the other justices. Jackson spoke perceptively more than any of the other justices in Merrill, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, Uni...
Another interesting comparison to draw is between Jackson and the other most recently confirmed justices: Gorsuch and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. The following shows a smoothed graph of those four justices’ word counts for each of their first three months of oral arguments on the court. None of these other new justices are even ...
As a result of the new format, we see an across-the-board increase in the justices’ oral argument word counts when compared to last term. Arguments also have gone on for longerthan their allotted time limits. With smoothed graphs similar to the previous one, we see that in the first three months of this term, almost all of the justices’ total word ...
With Jackson’s impact on oral arguments thus far, one might wonder whether a justice’s level of engagement at an argument can indicate whether that justice is more likely to write the majority opinion or a dissent in the case. Based on our analysis of argument word counts from the past decade, the answer seems to be no. Since 2011, we see that the ...
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. On April 7, 2022, a bipartisan group of...
30. Juni 2022 · Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the nation’s 116th justice, becoming the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She replaced Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who retired.
