who is the swing vote on the supreme court
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Swing vote On the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justices Potter Stewart and Anthony Kennedy have been described as swing votes between the two factions of the court. In the United Kingdom, the  Essex man ,  Worcester woman  and  Holby City woman  are examples of personifications of swing voters.
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Here's What 5 Supreme Court Justices Have Said About Gay Marriage Justice Antonin Scalia. “This case is about power in several respects,” Scalia wrote in his dissenting opinion on the Windsor case, arguing the courts should not decide laws on gay marriage. “It is about the power of our people to govern themselves, and the power of this Court to pronounce the law.
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- In April 2009, Specter switched parties giving the Democrats a 60th vote in the Senate when Al Franken was declared the winner in Minnesota and sworn in after court challenges in July 2009. Specter put that vote to good use casting the 60th vote for cloture on Obamacare in late December 2009.
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History of Women on the Supreme Court Confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 6, 2009, Sotomayor became the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. When Kagan was confirmed on August 5, 2010, she changed the gender composition of the court as the third woman to serve simultaneously.
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The 25 Senators Who Ended the Shutdown Just Taught a Master Class in Leadership This band of peacemakers, called the Common Sense Coalition, helped broker a deal in which Senate Democrats would support a bill to fund the government for three weeks and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, promised to bring a vote on the future of Dreamers--illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children--by the middle of February if a workable compromise hasn't been reached by then.
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Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies Merrick Garland listens as President Obama announces him as a Supreme Court nominee in the Rose Garden at the White House on March 16, 2016. Garland, 63, is chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval.ontinue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval.
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âPoliticsâ an issue in State Supreme Court primary Candidates are Tim Burns, Rebecca Dallet and Michael Screnock. They are running for a seat now held by Justice Michael J. Gableman, a judicial conservative who is not seeking a second term. After the primary, the two top vote-getters will run in the general election April 3. All three currently hold legal and/or judicial positions.
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- The Supreme Court decides in Minor v. Happersett that a Missouri law limiting the right to vote to male citizens is constitu-tional. The Court rejects the claim by Vir-ginia Minor that the state law deprives her of one of the “privileges or immunities” of citizenship in violation of the 14th Amend-ment.
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The facts about Supreme Court nominations and Senate control The well-publicized nomination of Bork to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 saw Bork get just 42 votes in the Senate, when the Republicans had just 45 seats. Not surprisingly, in every instance since 1945 when the same party controlled the White House and the Senate, that nominee was approved.
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Meet the 9 sitting Supreme Court justices Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Roberts, 61, was appointed to the court in 2005 by President George W. Bush, who nominated him as Chief Justice of the United States. He took his seat Sept. 29, 2005, after a 78-22 vote in the Senate approving his nomination to become the 17th chief justice.
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- Says there is a traditional 60-vote threshold for confirming Supreme Court nominees. — PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, March 31st, 2017 Nelson faces pressure over Gorsuch vote
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What the Trump Presidency Means for the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 83, and Justice Stephen G. Breyer is 78. Mr. Trump’s surprising triumph vindicates Republican senators, who refused to act on President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland, saying the choice of a new Supreme Court justice should belong to the next president.
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Is Anthony Kennedy 'the first gay justice'? By the Numbers: Same-sex marriage. Kennedy, a moderate-conservative, is in many ways the power broker on the court. He shared the role of a swing vote with fellow centrist Sandra Day O'Connor before she retired seven years ago.
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The Constitution does not require the Senate to give judicial nominees an up or down vote By Ilya Somin By Ilya Somin February 17, 2016. The U.S. Supreme Court building (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) At a recent press conference, President Obama claimed that the Republican-controlled Senate has a duty to vote on his nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away on Saturday:
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Milestone Cases in Supreme Court History In United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional. In a 5 to 4 vote, the court ruled that DOMA violated the rights of gays and lesbians. The court also ruled that the law interferes with the states' rights to define marriage.It was the first case ever on the issue of gay marriage for the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. voted against striking it down as did Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.n a 5 to 4 vote, the court ruled that DOMA violated the rights of gays and lesbians. The court also ruled that the law interferes with the states' rights to define marriage. It was the first case ever on the issue of gay marriage for the Supreme Court.
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The Here and Now of Same-Sex Marriage Those were the questions that the four conservative Justices on the Supreme Court and, to an extent, the presumed swing voter, Anthony Kennedy, asked early on in the oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case that has the potential to establish a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Both questions, though, were overtaken by third: What about the children? And, in debating that, at the end of two and a half hours of back and forth, it sounded like marriage equality was headed for a win.
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Supreme Court saves Obamacare He was joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy -- who is often the Court's swing vote -- and the four liberal justices. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the dissent, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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- President Obama announces his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in the Rose Garden on March 16, 2016. Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland, walks out with President Obama and Vice President Biden as he is introduced as Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court.
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7 questions about Obama's Supreme Court nomination Known as a moderate liberal with bipartisan appeal, Garland has been on the short list for a Supreme Court nomination throughout Obama’s term. Judge Garland's record demonstrates that he is essentially the model, neutral judge, SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein wrote in 2010.
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Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court The court’s opinion said it did not strike down the act of Congress “lightly,” and said it “took care to avoid ruling on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act” in a separate case back in 2009. “Congress could have updated the coverage formula at that time, but did not do so.he 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, ruled in Shelby County v. Holder that “things have changed dramatically” in the South in the nearly 50 years since the Voting Rights Act was signed in 1965.
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Ted Cruz Wants To Be Able To Vote Out Supreme Court Justices Both decisions were judicial activism, plain and simple, Cruz writes. Both were lawless.. To challenge that judicial activism, Cruz said he is proposing a constitutional amendment to require Supreme Court justices to face retention elections every eight years.f they failed to reach the required approval rating, they would be removed from office and barred from serving on the Supreme Court in the future. Cruz, who is running for president in 2016, was among many Republican candidates criticizing the justices after a strong week for liberals at the court.
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15 Reasons Why The Obamacare Decision Is A Mind Blowing Disaster For America Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation in American history, and now we are stuck with it. It was a 5-4 decision to uphold Obamacare, and the swing vote was Chief Justice John Roberts who was appointed by George W. Bush. After the vote today, it is hard to have any faith in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act Continue reading the main story. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval.ontinue reading the main story. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval.
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Supreme Court Tie Dooms Obama Immigration Policy Supreme Court Tie Dooms Obama Immigration Policy. The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 Thursday over a challenge to President Barack Obama's immigration policy, a result that prevents the administration from putting the program into effect during the rest of his term.
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Swing States to Watch in the 2016 Election Neither side holds enough to ensure a win if both parties vote straight. That being the case, swing states–also called purple states or battleground states–hold 85 electoral votes, more than enough to tip the balance in either party’s favor.