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a public official having authority to decide questions of law
a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Recent Examples of justices
The justices could face emergency appeals over the 2024 presidential election.
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Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
The six conservative and three liberal justices return to the bench for oral arguments after delivering an extraordinary round of socially and politically-consequential decisions in June.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
The justices have already intervened in the case on an emergency basis.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Calls to reform the Supreme Court have followed criticism of the justices and their rulings.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
The Biden administration appealed the decision to the Supreme Court and is urging the justices to reverse the 5th Circuit.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
The justices could choose to review, for example, a lawsuit in swing-state North Carolina alleging that hundreds of thousands of noncitizens are on the state’s voter rolls.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
Nearly a half-century later, Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer were considering whether the Supreme Court should meet on Yom Kippur.
—Robert Gudmestad, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
There are other significant cases the justices could hear this term.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
The six conservative and three liberal justices return to the bench for oral arguments after delivering an extraordinary round of socially and politically-consequential decisions in June.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
The justices have already intervened in the case on an emergency basis.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Calls to reform the Supreme Court have followed criticism of the justices and their rulings.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
The Biden administration appealed the decision to the Supreme Court and is urging the justices to reverse the 5th Circuit.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
The justices could choose to review, for example, a lawsuit in swing-state North Carolina alleging that hundreds of thousands of noncitizens are on the state’s voter rolls.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
Nearly a half-century later, Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer were considering whether the Supreme Court should meet on Yom Kippur.
—Robert Gudmestad, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
There are other significant cases the justices could hear this term.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
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