This week the New Yorker magazine sheds further light on that issue in its lengthy analysis of the jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the Tea Party activism of his wife Ginni.
Should the allegations prove true, this would not be the first time Justice Prosser has been swept up in behavior not becoming of a Supreme Court Justice.
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Elsewhere, concerns were raised over the failing health of the chief justice of the Supreme Court , William Rehnquist, after he revealed he was receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatment for his thyroid cancer.
Simmie Knox's portrait of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, for instance, shows him smiling.
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She also managed the political and communications strategy around the successful nomination of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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"Nino, " as friends and family call him, was the lone offspring of two immigrant Italian families and "the center of their universe, " said Biskupic, who published "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" in 2009.
The list of 17 task force members includes a sheriff, a former Florida Supreme Court justice and a leader of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
One of the most liberal members of the current Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is among those who have questioned the timing of the Roe ruling and suggested that it contributed to the ongoing bitter debate.
"They are hindering any kind of observation by the public, " said Ketil Lund, a former Norwegian Supreme Court justice who was part of an International Commission of Jurists delegation.
The fate of the federal health care law currently before the Supreme Court is likely in the hands of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has already cast the swing vote in a number of contentious cases over the past decade.
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The appointment of the third woman Supreme Court Justice will be another crack in the glass ceiling that, for thousands of years, has kept women out of the leadership strata.
What would this committee do with compelling evidence of perjury and obstruction of justice committed by, for example, a sitting justice of the Supreme Court in a sexual harassment case in which he was the defendant?
Proceedings began with the swearing in of non-affiliated peer Lord Collins of Mapesbury, a former Law Lord whose position as Justice of the Supreme Court disqualified him from participation in the Lords between 2009 and 2011.
Asking hard and probing questions is the job of a Supreme Court Justice.
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Speaking for a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy did acknowledge an internal contradiction in employment discrimination law.
We are also faced with the prospect of in the next four years that two or more of the Supreme Court Justice seats will become available.
It was, after all, a movement of thousands of lawyers taking to the streets protesting the sacking of the Supreme Court chief justice by the military dictator Pervez Musharraf in 2007 that helped to dislodge Musharraf from power.
"All of this begins in less than 24 hours, when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court gives the oath of office to 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, " Cheney said.
In Alabama, Mr Pryor ordered the removal of the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court for not complying with a court order to get rid of a Ten Commandments monument he had installed in the lobby of the state's courthouse.
Souter to become the second woman on the court and only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court.
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This is the latest twist in a story that, for the moment, rivals the selection of the next Supreme Court justice.
Vice President Cheney, Vernon Jordan, more than one Supreme Court justice and a slew of ambassadors nibbled foie gras and crab claws while Topkis nervously introduced herself.
But they expected Mr Bush to honour his election promise to appoint a Supreme Court justice in the mould of an Antonin Scalia or a Clarence Thomas.
Ridge -- a former Marine, decorated Vietnam veteran, former congressman and two-term governor of Pennsylvania -- took the oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at the White House.
Among its targets were the State Department, the New York Queens Courthouse, military recruiting offices in Brooklyn and the home of New York Supreme Court Justice John Murtagh while Murtagh was asleep at home with his wife and children.
Of the many responsibilities accorded to a President by our Constitution, few are more weighty or consequential than that of appointing a Supreme Court justice -- particularly one to succeed a giant in the law like Justice John Paul Stevens.
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The next Congress tried to impeach the chief justice of the Supreme Court, twice.
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