Neil Gorsuch: Supreme Court Justice

Under the U.S. Constitution, this appointment is a lifelong position that will only be nullified if the judge resigns their post or dies in office. This creates serious contests within the partisan political environment found among federal representatives, for any candidate appointed to this post helps define the direction of the Supreme Court for the rest of their life. Thus, it is frequently believed that a president who appoints a judge to the Supreme Court is creating a legacy, helping to shape the direction of the laws for the country for a time long after their presidency has expired. This makes the selection of a judge a hotly contested process.

Conclusion: The Supreme court are divided politically and the court is more conservative than in the Warren/Burger era, ( since 1969 when Nixon became president there have been 16 appointments to the court 12 by Republican Presidents and 4 by Democrat Presidents),but while the court has developed a conservative view on election contributions and guns the main precedents of the Warren/ Burger era remain intact because being conservative is not the same as being a judicial

As humans we can’t just escape from our own personal opinions and go purely off of an old description of what our founding fathers wanted this country to be. Justices are supposed to be secular and go only by the constitutionality of a law or situation. Conservative justices regularly vote in favor of Conservative opinions, and Liberal justices vote in favor of Liberal opinions, whether or not either opinion actually coincides with the constitution. Connection

The above facts and details of appointments serve as great strengths for Greenburg, but there are also weaknesses she failed to touch on and include in this book. Greenburg fails to consider how the same scare-tactic rhetoric used by democratic and liberal senators nearly every time a conservative justice is nominated as well she only glances and summarizes the events of Thomas’ confirmation hearing and the attempted filibuster of Samuel Alito’s nomination. These accounts would have provided more information and context for the book to give a more well-rounded account of these appointments

No one has any idea of what the new supreme court will be like every time they are chosen. Even the presidents and officials who appoint them can only presume what kind of future the new supreme court holds. A good example would be Sonia Sotomayor, the first latino justice chosen by president Barack Obama who chose her because he felt that she had a bright future, but in reality she didn’t really stand out much. She is often compared to the first African American and first female justice, who did in fact break racial and gender barriers but weren’t generally seen as intellectual leaders. A trend in the recent decades displays that presidents typically nominate candidates with high academics, judicial resumes, a history of controversial speeches,

Judge Neil Gorsuch is President Donald Trump's selection to fill the Supreme Court seat that was left open a year ago by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch graduated from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford, was a clerk for two Supreme Court justices and worked for a period of time at the Department of Justice. He attended Harvard Law with former President of the United States Barack Obama. Gorsuch has served on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Colorado since 2006.

Clarence Thomas is just the second African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court. His confirmation margin of fifty-two to forty-eight is the smallest margin in history. Until the very recent confirmations of both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, for the past twenty-five plus years, Thomas had been the last conservative to be named to the current court. Thomas’ confirmation hearings have gone down in history as those containing the most drama. His hearings would produce such intense arguments over race and gender. Thomas is on of the most publicly criticized justices in the history of the Supreme Court. The primary reason for that is the "uncommon" connection between his views and the color of

The prologue of Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That changed America by Wil Haygood, discusses President Lyndon Johnson’s nomination of Thurgood Marshall, which was described as putting white supremacy in a coffin. Showdown describes the process that Thurgood Marshall took before and after his Supreme Court nomination. Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer who was very successful in arguing before the Supreme Court. Marshall transformed the world of African Americans to opportunities. The achievements of Brown v. Board of Education, Shelley v. Kraemer, and other cases wouldn’t have been possible without Marshall and the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Brown v. Board of Education

Based on the research of Justice Alito, he was appointed by former president Gorge W. Bush as one of the Supreme Court Justices on January 31, 2006 and is currently a Republican Party federal justice. His approaches to things are very unpredictable and distinctive from what he is viewed as. However, his conservative standpoint is still a part of his image. This paper will include: the background of the justice, the judicial philosophy he approaches, and his opinion on a dispute.

These are just a few of the assumptions that are not supported by evidence in this article. The suppression of evidence is throughout due to the things said about him from other people that have interpreted his actions and formed an opinions of him because they don’t want him to be nominated. Some of the language that Mr. Hananel uses to prejudge Gorsuch is in the remarks about his decision concerning the 13-year-old. He says his powerful dissent in the case last year offers a glimpse of how Gorsuch – a favorite among conservatives – might be hard to pigeonhole on criminal justice issues, if he is confirmed to the Supreme Court. He has also used words like generally, likely to make assumptions of what he has done and will do if he is nominated. From the entire article, I don’t think what was implied about Gorsuch, not being a good candidate, leads to the editor’s conclusion. He seems like a logical man that wants to follow the law and be fair in administering it. This article at times seems to contradict what Mrs. Hananel is saying about Gorsuch through what Gorsuch has said or possibly done. The editor would have us to believe Gorsuch is not a good candidate for the Supreme Court. He used reasoning when it came to the 13-year-old, in saying the police officer went too far in arresting him and that there is a difference between childish pranks and more seriously

Rehnquist was appointed by President Nixon and took his oath into office as associate justice on January 7, 1972. Rehnquist has served as the court conservative ideologue. William served as a chief justice of the Supreme Court from September 26, 1986 to September 3, 2005. During his time that he served as a Supreme Court judge, he wrote majority of opinions on the fourth amendment with included searches, seizures and traffic stops. Rehnquist argued about conservative views in a number of cases held by the Supreme Court. “His writings were mostly for the majority or dissenting opinions. Rehnquist had recognized his conservative viewpoints through the deference to the government over individual rights, respect for legislative actions in

NPR’s legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg, described a “horrible political storm” brewing over the Supreme Court of the United States (“CNN,” 2016, p. 1). While reporting for CNN, Totenberg used these words to draw attention to the untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia in an era of modern politics in which the court has become more polarized than ever. The Supreme Court, the highest court of the land, is not only being severely impacted by partisan ties, but is now also deciding cases according to these biased beliefs. The Democratic and Republican parties, after corrupting and encroaching upon the federal judiciary, have made court nominations and rulings into a game of party politics, inevitably destroying the impartiality of the

There is an open seat in the supreme court. Since the death of justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, President Barack Obama has attempted to appoint judge Merrick Garland to fill this vacancy. However, the currently Republican U.S. Senate has refused to act on the nomination. This is not the first time the Senate has disagreed with the president's choice of nominee. The Senate confirms just around eighty percent of the president's nominations. There is a strong rationale behind this two-tiered appointment system. Seats in the Supreme Court are extremely important positions to hold; the Supreme Court has the role of interpreting the text of the Constitution and using that interpretation

The current Chief Justice of Texas, Nathan Hecht is a Republican from Dallas, Texas. Hecht was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988 and then reelected to a six-year term in 1994, 2000, and 2006. He then secured his fifth six-year term on November 6, 2012. On September 10, 2013, Hecht was appointed Chief Justice by Governor Rick Perry and sworn in by retiring Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson on October 1, 2013. After Jefferson left office for retirement, Nathan Hecht became Chief Justice of Texas on December 31, 2014 and will have his term ending on December 31, 2020. Hecht is the longest-serving Supreme Court member in Texas history. In the past, Hecht was a partner in what is now known as the Locke Lord firm, practicing mainly in the area of general business and commercial litigation. Our Chief Justice of our great state Texas has had an economic and societal impact involving the growth of legal aid funding involving poverty. Also, another headline happening not too long ago, involving Chief Justice Nathan Hecht about the fine settling charges that he broke state campaign finance laws represents another impact he had on our state.

Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., was sworn into the Supreme Court on September 29, 2005 and was nominated by President George W. Bush. John Roberts, Jr., took the place of Chief Justice William Renquist after he passed away and the seat became open. His political affiliation is Republican and he has worked for