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Who are the justices on the US Supreme Court?

On the court since: 29 September 2005

How he got to the court: Born in New York and raised in Indiana, Roberts attended a boarding school as a teenager but also spent summers working in a steel mill. After considering becoming a historian at Harvard, he went to law school there instead, eventually clerking for then-Associate Justice Rehnquist. He spent many years as a lawyer in the Reagan administration then entered private practice, arguing before the high court and serving as one of several legal advisers to George W Bush in the Florida presidential recount case. Originally nominated to fill the spot left by retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Roberts was re-nominated for the chief justice position after Chief Justice Rehnquist died between terms, and his nomination was fast-tracked.

Who is he as a justice: A conservative justice, Roberts is the third-youngest Chief Justice in the court's history, confirmed at 50 years old. Last year's term saw more than half its cases decided unanimously, something many c

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Ideological leanings of United States Supreme Court justices

The Supreme Court of the United States is the country's highest federal court. The Court has ultimate—and largely discretionary—appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of U.S. federal law, plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases.

The nine Supreme Court justices base their decisions on their interpretation of both legal doctrine and the precedential application of laws in the past. In most cases, interpreting the law is relatively clear-cut and the justices decide unanimously; however, in more complicated or controversial cases, the Court is often divided.

In modern discourse, the justices of the Court are often categorized as having conservative, moderate, or liberal philosophies of law and of judicial interpretation. It has long been commonly assumed that justices' votes are a reflection of their judicial decision-making philosophy as well as their ideological leanings, personal attitudes, values, political philosophies, or policy preferences. A growing

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Biographies researched and written by NPS Volunteer Eleanor Jones.

Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962. He was the sixth foreign-born justice, having spent the first twelve years of his life in Vienna, Austria before immigrating to New York in 1894. He was also a non-practicing Jew, albeit an active member of the Zionist movement. Although he spent much of his early career as a legal professor at his alma matter Harvard Law School, Frankfurter built up considerable influence and had an important hand in national politics. For example, he attended the post-World War I Paris Peace Conference as the representative of the American Zionists, he publicly defended those accused of being communists during Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s red scare, he supported the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and President Franklin D. Roosevelt went with a number of Frankfurter’s political nominee recommendations.

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