Supreme Court

legal

When a Supreme Court justice dies, the Constitution sets the only fixed rule: the seat must be filled, but the how and when depend on political realities, not statute. President...

Government & Politics

Brett Kavanaugh is an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, having joined the Court in October 2018 after his nomination by President Donald Trump. As a justice,...

verification

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, faced two separate lung cancer diagnoses over multiple years. In December 2018, at age 85, she was diagnosed wi...

Status Updates

Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016 at a private residence in west Texas from natural causes, specifically a myocardial infarction complicated by coronary artery diseas...

Status Updates

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not alive; she died on September 18, 2020. This status clarification explains who RBG was, when she died, and why her work remains influential in constitu...

Status Updates

Antonin Scalia died on February 13, 2016, at Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa, Texas. He was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The 79-year-old Associa...

Celebrity Profiles

Justice Antonin Scalia died at Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa, Texas, on February 13, 2016. He was found unresponsive in his room at the ranch’s private lodging and was later p...

legal-figures

Antonin Scalia served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1986 until his death in 2016. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, he became known for his...

Celebrity Profiles

Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are both associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. This profile provides their current ages, verified appointment dates, and...

government-law

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. As the Court’s 111th justice and its first Lat...