- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15 1933, Brooklyn, New York) is an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Court, she was a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, Newark School of Law and Columbia Law School, a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union, and a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. During much of her life, she has been active in the women's rights movement, … - Anthony Kennedy
Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) has been an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1988. Appointed by conservative President Ronald Reagan, he acts as the Court's swing vote in many cases, and as a result has held special prominence in many politically charged 5-4 decisions. - Stephen Breyer
Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American attorney, political figure, and jurist. Since 1994, he has served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court. Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964, … - Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President. Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. Ms. Miers has a long and distinguished professional career. Before joining the President's staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000. - George Carlin
George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York, New York) is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Carlin is especially noted for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. In fact, Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case "F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation", … - John Jay
John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, and jurist. Considered one of the "founding fathers" of the United States, Jay served in the Continental Congress, and was elected President of that body in 1778. During and after the American Revolution, he was a minister (ambassador) to Spain and France, helping to fashion American foreign policy and to secure favorable peace terms from the British and French. - Anna Nicole Smith
Vickie Lynn Marshall (November 28, 1967 - February 8, 2007), better known under the stage name of Anna Nicole Smith, was an American sex symbol, model, actress, celebrity, and spokeswoman. Her highly publicized marriage to oil business executive and billionaire J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior, resulted in speculation that she married the octogenarian for his money, which she denied. - Abe Fortas
Abraham Fortas was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure. - Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law experts and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of "American Constitutional Law" (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, … - Norma McCorvey
Norma Leah McCorvey is best known as "Jane Roe" in the landmark "Roe v. Wade" lawsuit in which a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognized abortion as a Constitutional right, overturning individual states' laws against abortion, and who later recanted her previous support of abortion. - Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11 1872 - April 22 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the dean of Columbia Law School, Attorney General of the United States, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and later Chief Justice of the United States. - Jack Greenberg
Jack Greenberg (born 1924) is an American attorney and legal scholar. He was among the NAACP's legal counsel for a quarter century, notably including his involvement in cases included under the crucial Brown v. Board of Education decision. In all, he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. - David Barton
David Barton (born 1954) is an author and historian. He is the author of several books criticizing the current interpretation of separation of church and state in the United States, and an important figure of the Christian right. In addition to appearing on Trinity Broadcasting Network and "The 700 Club", Barton has been a guest on Fox News Channel, ABC, and National Public Radio. - Orval Faubus
Orval Eugene Faubus (7 January 1910 - 14 December 1994) was a six-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas, having served from 1955-1967. He is best known for his 1957 stand against the integration of Little Rock public schools in defiance of the United States Supreme Court. - Nancy Cruzan
Nancy Beth Cruzan (July 20, 1957-December 26, 1990) was a figure in the right-to-die movement. After an auto accident left her in a persistent vegetative state, her family fought in courts for three years, as far as the U.S. Supreme Court, to have her feeding tube removed. The Court denied the family's request citing lack of evidence of Cruzan's wishes, but the family ultimately prevailed by providing additional evidence. - Susan Estrich
To learn the answers to questions like these, one need only look through some of the prolific writing of Susan Estrich -- politician, professor, lawyer and writer. - John Rutledge
John Rutledge was Governor of South Carolina, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, signer of the United States Constitution, and served on the U.S. Supreme Court (Chief Justice from August to December 1795). He was the elder brother of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. - James Dale
James Dale (b. 1971 as James Dick) is an Eagle Scout who served as an assistant Scoutmaster to a Boy Scout troop. When speaking at Rutgers University, Dale said he was gay and was quoted in a local newspaper. Because of the Scouts' policy forbidding openly gay adult leaders, they told him he could no longer serve as a leader. - Michael C. Dorf
Michael C. Dorf is the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University. He is a noted Constitutional scholar who has authored three books and scores of law review articles about American Constitutional law. He is also a columnist for Findlaw.com and a regular contributor to The American Prospect. Dorf is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. - Michael B. Mukasey
Michael Mukasey , who prepped for the job in the federal judiciary while Gonzales was the president's lapdog, is a rocket scientist by comparison. After hoodwinking the Senate into confirming him because he promised that he'd have to look into this torture stuff, Mukasey has gone to great lengths to defend its use while approving an "independent" investigation into the darkest of all the dark aspects of the Bush administration that is anything but. - Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954, Boston, MA, United States) is a Korean-American lawyer, legal scholar, former U.S. State Department official, and current Dean of the Yale Law School (since July 1, 2004). His name has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee in the event of a Democratic Presidential victory in 2008. Koh became Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on November 13, 1998. - Oliver Brown
Oliver Brown was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case "Brown v. Board of Education" of 1954. The Court overturned the doctrine of separate but equal for public schools. - John McLean
John McLean (March 11, 1785 - April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts. McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey, the son of Fergus McLean and Sophia Blackford. After living in a succession of frontier towns, Morgantown, Virginia; Nicholasville, Kentucky; and Maysville, Kentucky; in 1797 his family settled in Ridgeville, Warren County, … - Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley (14 September 1921-28 September 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, and state senator. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the ninth of twelve children. Her parents had immigrated from Nevis, in the Caribbean; her mother was the founder of the New Haven chapter of the NAACP. With financial help from a local philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, she initially attended Fisk University, … - Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson (born February 15, 1956) is the vice president and Washington D.C. bureau chief for Fox News Channel. He is also the current chairman of the Capitol Hill Radio/TV Correspondents' Association. Prior to his current position, Wilson was the host of the Washington D.C. based weekend program, "Weekend Live," since 2003 (From 2003 until May 2006, he only previously anchored the Sunday edition). - Curt Flood
Curtis Charles Flood (January 18 1938 - January 20 1997) was a Major League Baseball player who spent most of his career as a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. A defensive standout, he led the National League in putouts four times and in fielding percentage twice, winning Gold Glove Awards in his last seven full seasons from 1963-1969. He also batted over .300 six times, and led the NL in hits (211) in 1964. - George Sutherland
George Sutherland (March 25, 1862 - July 18, 1942) was an English-born U.S. jurist and political figure. One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding, he served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. Born in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Sutherland immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1863 to join the community of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in Springville, Utah. - Stephen Gillers
Stephen Gillers is a professor at the New York University School of Law. He is often cited as an expert in legal ethics. Professor Gillers' political activism includes calling on then-presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 to name former U.S. President Bill Clinton as his running mate. NY Times Op-Ed Professor Gillers has also been critical of U.S. Supreme Court Justices accepting paid trips to legal seminars. - Elena Kagan
Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is currently the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Kagan first came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. She has taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003. - Ernesto Miranda
Ernesto Arturo Miranda was a laborer whose conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges based on his confession under police interrogation resulted in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case ("Miranda v. Arizona") which ruled that a police officer upon arresting a person must read him his rights to counsel and to remain silent, called a Miranda warning. - Joseph Scheidler
Joseph Scheidler (born 7 September, 1927) is a noted American pro-life activist, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League, former Benedictine monk, and named defendant in the NOW v. Scheidler litigation, a 19-year saga which was ultimately resolved in Scheidler's favor by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. Scheidler lives in Chicago with his wife Ann, and has seven children and seventeen grandchildren, many of whom are involved in his organization. - Maureen Mahoney
Maureen E. Mahoney (born in 1954) is an appellate lawyer at the law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, DC who has argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003, she argued on behalf of the University of Michigan and its affirmative action program in "Grutter v. Bollinger". Justice O'Connor's opinion agreed with the university's position, holding that using race in public universities' admissions decisions was permissible. - Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He was educated at Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School (JD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and New College, Oxford (DPhil). At Oxford he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz. - John Blair
John Blair (1732-August 31, 1800) was an American politician, Founding Father, and Patriot. John Blair was one of the best-trained jurists of his day. A legal scholar, he avoided the burly-burly of state politics, preferring to work behind the scenes. But he was devoted to the idea of a permanent union of the newly independent states and loyally supported fellow Virginians James Madison and George Washington at the Constitutional Convention. - Henry Wade
Henry Menasco Wade (November 11, 1914-March 1, 2001), was a Texas lawyer who participated in two of the most notable U.S. court cases of the 20th century, the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, "Roe v. Wade". Wade, one of eleven children, was born in Rockwall County, Texas, outside Dallas. A good student, Wade, along with five of his seven brothers, entered the legal profession. - Jonathan Tasini
Jonathan Tasini (born 1956 in Houston, Texas), is the current president of the Economic Future Group, a national consulting group in the United States. He is a strategist, organizer, activist, commentator and writer, primarily focusing his energies on the topics of work, labor and the economy. He writes most frequently for the popular labor and economy blog Working Life. - Rex E. Lee
Rex E. Lee from St. Johns, Arizona was a respected Constitutional lawyer, a Latter-day Saint (LDS; see also Mormon), an alumnus and tenth president of Brigham Young University from July 1, 1989 through December 31, 1995, a law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General under the Reagan Administration. He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. - Bushrod Washington
Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 - November 26, 1829) is perhaps most noted for his long career on the U.S. Supreme Court as one of the Justices that made up the Marshall Court. The nephew of George Washington, he authored the famous opinion of "Corfield v. Coryell", 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (C.C.E.D. Penn. 1823), while riding circuit as an Associate Justice. - Charles Alan Wright
Charles Alan Wright (1927 - 2000), was a prominent authority in the United States on constitutional law and federal procedure, and was the author of the treatise, <i>Federal Practice and Procedure</i>. Born in Philadelphia in 1927, Wright earned his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in 1947 and law degree from Yale in 1949. - Johnny Paul Penry
Johhny Paul Penry is a Texas Death Row convict who is said to be mentally retarded. He was sentenced to death for raping and stabbing Pamela Moseley Carpenter who died of her wounds. His lawyer claims that he has the reasoning capability of a 7-year old. His death sentence has been overturned three times by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988, 2001 and 2006.
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