Sentences with phrase «u.s. supreme court justice»
WASHINGTON, DC — The retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor dramatically changes the court's composition by removing a crucial moderate voice that has often been at the heart of protecting women's health and rights.
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One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently threw her support behind a hiring plan developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Law Clerk Hiring — a committee which includes Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Sidney Thomas.
You and your wife were close friends with U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. and his wife.
He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2000 - 2001, and for Judge David Tatel on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1998 - 1999.
Those stories included the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in West Texas in February, the election defeat of Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson, the on - again - off - again charges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the fight for accreditation for the UNT Dallas College of Law, the Baylor sexual assault scandal, and more.
As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during oral argument in this case, judges should be «above the fray,» and Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks were similar, to the effect that «there are things we just don't let judges do, like publish op - eds in newspapers to respond to criticism of the court's decisions.
It is notable that on this subject, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is a vocal critic of electing judges.
All associates in the group have spent at least a year as law clerks for an appellate judge, with over half previously clerking for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
He is a professor of law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
As if that wasn't sufficient training to face the Supreme Court justices, he then completed the legal world's stations of the cross: serving as editor of the Harvard Law Review; clerking for the 4th Circuit's J. Michael Luttig and then U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
The U.S. Supreme Court justice selection process was deliberately inserted into the political inter-branch process when the U.S. Constitution was drafted.
In 2007, Patrick appeared with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at Georgetown University Law Center's H5 Summit on Electronic Discovery.
Professor Marder, who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, teaches courses on civil procedure and on juries, judges and trials.
On March 23, 2016, a First Circuit panel of three judges, which included retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, ruled that a district judge properly dismissed Michael Tersigni's negligent design claim because he failed to present evidence of a reasonable alternative design.
U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has warned against the use of humour, but mainly as a matter of balancing the risks versus the potential for reward.
«People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are «idiots,» U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.»
The latest target of Geoff Pullum's indignation is U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, who, it turns out, doesn't know his active from his passive, when it comes to voice.
She would be the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice.
1) Question: Why does retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor keep calling my home at 1:00 in the morning?
Notorious R.B.G. is a social justice blog depicting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a «badass,» gangster - like figure.
Graduates of non-Ivy-League law schools may not have a prayer of becoming a U.S. Supreme Court justice (all the current justices went to Harvard, Yale, or Columbia (Ginburg, who started at Harvard), but we can at least hope to clerk for one.
The ABA's annual meeting opening assembly will take place immediately following the ceremony, with remarks from Canada's Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has recalled an idyllic childhood in prior interviews.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent in United States v. Windsor, the case striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and upholding same - sex marriage, probably did not come as much of a surprise to legal observers.
Question: I am a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
1) Question: My buddy just bet me $ 1,000 that a random stranger of my choosing would be unable to name a single sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Other famous Eagle Scouts include Neil Armstrong, President Gerald Ford, Wal - Mart founder Sam Walton, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and journalist Walter Cronkite.
The danger of a «runaway convention» has prompted right - wing groups and icons, like the John Birch Society and the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia, to denounce the idea.
That is why U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia has declared that if CO2 is to be labeled an «air pollutant», then so must Frisbees and flatulence.
The distinguished jury that selected the 2013 Pritzker Laureate consists of its chairman, The Lord Palumbo, internationally known architectural patron of London, chairman of the trustees, Serpentine Gallery, former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, former chairman of the Tate Gallery Foundation, and former trustee of the Mies van der Rohe Archive at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and alphabetically: Alejandro Aravena, architect and executive director of Elemental in Santiago, Chile; Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Washington, D.C.; Yung Ho Chang, architect and educator, Beijing, The People's Republic of China; Glenn Murcutt, architect and 2002 Pritzker Laureate of Sydney, Australia; and Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, professor and author of Helsinki, Finland.
His subjects have included an impressive list of government officials, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, New York Mayor David Dinkins, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, congressman, and cabinet secretaries, among them.
Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads 2014, the library's 12th annual community reading project began today with the distribution of thousands of copies of My Beloved World by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to schools and libraries.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R - Fla.)
The award is named for retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in honor of her commitment to improving civics education.
«In the earliest public schools, teachers taught and students listened,» U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has written approvingly about that simpler era in American education.
Supporters propose re-naming the school after pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who owned a house in the neighborhood surrounding Stuart.
Klein — who clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court justice, was a Clinton White House insider, earned $ 2 million per year as chief of U.S. operations of Bertelsmann, and had the unbridled support of a mayor who spent $ 109 million of his own fortune to win a third term in office — was David.
The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall maintained: «Unless our children learn together, there is little hope that our people will learn to live together.»
A graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, where he was Editor - in - Chief of the Law Review, Cerf also was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says that federal mandates are squeezing some subjects out of the curriculum, and she is working on a project that has a goal of restoring one of them: civics education.
It also rejected calls from some Texans to downplay Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice, and Cesar Chavez, the well - known organizer...
Washington — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. last week ordered that prayer in Alabama schools be stopped until a federal court challenge against the practice is resolved.
Special Engagement ONE WEEK ONLY At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture...
SYNOPSIS (via iMDB): The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
Chadwick Boseman has already made quite a career out of portraying a variety of prominent African - Americans, from football star Floyd Little (The Express), to baseball great Jackie Robinson (42), to Godfather of Soul James Brown (Get on Up) to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Marshall).
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival opens there Oct. 12 with «Marshall,» the Reginald Hudlin - directed biopic of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a crucial early chapter of his life.
«Marshall,» director Reginald Hudlin's legal drama about a key early success in the career of future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, will open the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival Oct. 12.
Documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg — longtime U.S. Supreme Court Justice and now a cultural touchstone — proves to be engrossing.