* 1925 – Anthony Mason, Australian judge and Air Force Officer, Chief Justice of Australia

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the opinion and was joined by Justices Scalia, Alito, and Thomas and by Chief Justice Roberts.

As Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a five Justice majority, stated in Alden v. Maine,:

Front row ( left to right ): Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice of the United States | Chief Justice John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote the majority opinion ; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

* Justice Holmes and the ' Splendid Prisoner ' Anthony Lewis on Debs from The New York Review of Books

In 1980, he had a memorable role as future Justice Abe Fortas, to whom he bore a strong resemblance, in the made-for-television film version of Anthony Lewis ' Gideon's Trumpet, opposite Henry Fonda in an Emmy-nominated performance as Clarence Earl Gideon.

* Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and was joined by John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O ' Connor, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer.

Some 149 sitting United States federal judges are Harvard Law School graduates ; six of the nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States attended the law school ( Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan ).

Six of the current nine members of the court attended HLS: Chief Justice John Roberts, and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, who also served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009.

This resulted in a precarious five Justice majority consisting of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Byron White, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas that favored upholding all the abortion restrictions.

Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Souter, and Justice Clarence Thomas joined.

In January 1693, the new Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery convened in Salem, Essex County, again headed by William Stoughton, as Chief Justice, with Anthony Checkley continuing as the Attorney General, and Jonathan Elatson as Clerk of the Court.

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held, in a unanimous 8 – 0 decision ( Justice Anthony Kennedy took no part in the consideration or decision of the case ), that the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee prohibits awarding damages to public figures to compensate for emotional distress intentionally inflicted upon them.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion which Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer joined.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence, ruling that Texas ' state sodomy law was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause ( adult consensual sexual intimacy in one's home is a vital interest in liberty and privacy protected by the Due Process Clause ).

As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.

* 2001 – In Washington, D. C., U. S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.

Chief Justice John Jay served as a diplomat to negotiate the so-called Jay Treaty ( aka The Treaty of London of 1794 ), and Chief Justice Earl Warren chaired The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.

* Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building ( Department of Justice headquarters )

In 2011, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer ( who worked with Senator Kennedy on airline deregulation in the 1970s ) wrote:

* Facsimiles of letters to the Justice Department and Thurgood Marshall from the Kennedy library

As Chief Justice, Warren swore in President Dwight D Eisenhower in his second inauguration in 1957 and his successor John F Kennedy in 1961.

President and First Lady Kennedy with Chief Justice and Mrs. Warren, November 1963

As Chief Justice, he swore in Presidents Eisenhower ( in 1957 ), Kennedy ( in 1961 ), Johnson ( in 1965 ) and Nixon ( in 1969 ).

Zinn has also pointed out that the Justice Department under Robert F. Kennedy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover, did little or nothing to stop the segregationists from brutalizing civil rights workers.

Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote the decision for the majority

Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote the decision for the majority.

Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.

For example, Justice Harlan in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson landmark Supreme Court opinion, wrote, ' There is no caste here.

In a letter to an individual dated 23 March 1975, the Universal House of Justice wrote:

Dissenting opinions included Justice Stevens's, who wrote "... the voluntary character of the private choice to prefer a parochial education over an education in the public school system seems to me quite irrelevant to the question whether the government's choice to pay for religious indoctrination is constitutionally permissible.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

Brown., in which Justice Charles L. Woodbury wrote that " only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests are as much a man's own ... as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears.

In 1793, William Godwin, who has often been cited as the first anarchist, wrote Political Justice, which some consider to be the first expression of anarchism.

Due to the prevalence of American television programs and motion pictures in which the police characters frequently read suspects their rights, it has become an expected element of arrest procedure — in the 2000 Dickerson decision, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that Miranda warnings had " become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture.

Chief Justice Marshall wrote the opinion of the court.

Justice Breyer, who dissented, wrote in his most recent book that if he could change three of his dissenting opinions ( while on the Supreme Court ) into a majority, this would be one of them.

Ira Glaser, former head of the ACLU, wrote that " The Justice Department inspector general's report implies more than the violation of the civil liberties of 762 non-citizens.

In particular, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in a dissent that " t is high time, in my judgment, to wipe out root and branch the judge-invented and judge-maintained notion that judges can try criminal contempt cases without a jury.

However, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote, " the Constitution does not appear to authorize two or more Supreme Courts functioning in effect as separate courts.

Justice Abe Fortas wrote, However, since 1969 the Supreme Court has placed a number of limitations on Tinker interpretations.

In affirming the lower courts decision to dismiss, Justice Abrams wrote: " Although Korb has a secured right to speak out on matters of public concern, and he has a right to express views with which Raytheon disagrees, he has no right to do so at Raytheon's expense.

Justice Samuel Nelson wrote the opinion of the Supreme Court in The Justices v. Murray, 76 U. S. 9 Wall.

In Furman v. Georgia,, Justice Brennan wrote, " There are, then, four principles by which we may determine whether a particular punishment is ' cruel and unusual '.

Justice Brennan also wrote that he expected no state would pass a law obviously violating any one of these principles, so court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment would involve a " cumulative " analysis of the implication of each of the four principles.

Justice Scalia ( joined by Chief Justice Roberts ) wrote in dissent that " the proposed Eighth Amendment would have been laughed to scorn if it had read ' no criminal penalty shall be imposed which the Supreme Court deems unacceptable.

" However, Justice William O. Douglas rejected that view ; Douglas wrote that, " The Ninth Amendment obviously does not create federally enforceable rights.