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President Barack Obama made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor [1] to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter. [2] . Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 6, 2009, by a vote of 68–31.
Barack Obama with his first Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor. Barack Obama with his second Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. # Justice Seat State Former justice Nomination date ... December 5, 2022: Incumbent 4: Beverly B. Martin: Eleventh: June 19, 2009: January 20, 2010: 97–0 [7]
President Obama later chose Kansas Supreme Court Justice Nancy Moritz to fill the seat to which Six had been nominated, and the Senate easily confirmed Moritz on May 5, 2014. [ 150 ] United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
16 mar 2016 · President Obama said he had chosen Merrick B. Garland, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as his nominee for the Supreme Court. Congressional...
21 paź 2022 · This article looks at the appointment and confirmation politics of President Obama’s nominees during the 114th Congress in which unprecedented obstruction and delay of Obama's nominees including the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland occurred.
In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where she served from 1998–2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.
17 cze 2021 · In a much-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected another effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law often regarded as the signature legislative achievement of former President Barack Obama.
