Further Reading – Supreme Court

Overview

Supreme Court Website
http://www.supremecourt.gov/

Timeline of Supreme Court Justices
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members.aspx

Biographies of Current Supreme Court Justices
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

List of Supreme Court Nominees (1789-present)
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm

Alliance for Justice
http://www.allianceforjustice.org/

Supreme Court Nomination Battles

Clement Haynsworth and G Harrold Carswell
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895379_1895421_1895542,00.html

Robert Bork
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895379_1895421_1895437,00.html

Clarence Thomas
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895379_1895421_1895403,00.html

Harriet Miers
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895379_1895421_1895541,00.html

Bork Nomination Hearings
https://youtu.be/5ffTtOMIJAk

Reaction to Bork
https://youtu.be/APbiZGiSfb4

Obama’s Nominees

Committee on the Judiciary
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/

Senate Judiciary Committee hears from Sonia Sotomayor
https://youtu.be/iv4A7XaBC5Y

Sotomayor confirmed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/sotomayor-confirmed-by-se_n_246262.html

Sotomayor pledges ‘fidelity to the law’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/13/sotomayor-pledges-fidelity-law-day-confirmation-hearing/

Senate Judiciary Committee Republican implies Kagan is lying
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/06/29/128190660/ranking-member-of-senate-judiciary-committee-implies-kagan-may-be-lying

Kagan approved
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/21/nation/la-na-kagan-vote-20100721

Senator questioning Kagan
https://youtu.be/DGaFUessJgE

Civil Liberties

Key Cases 2006-7
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/tp/Supreme-Court-Cases-2006-Term.htm

Key Cases 2007-8
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/tp/Supreme-Court-Cases-2007-Term.htm

Key Cases 2008-9
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/tp/Supreme-Court-Cases-2008-2009-Term.htm

Key Cases 2009-10
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/tp/Key-Civil-Liberties-Cases-Of-The-Supreme-Courts-2009-2010-Term.htm

Institutional Racism
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/raceequalopportunity/g/inst_racism.htm

Flag Burning
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/freespeech/p/flagburning.htm

Understanding Pro Life v Pro Choice
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/abortion/tp/Pro-Life-vs-Pro-Choice.htm

Joe Biden on Civil Liberties
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/ussenators/p/joe_biden.htm

Same Sex Marriage Legalised
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling/