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=Samuel Alito =

Naomi Carolan

 * =**Born April 1, 1950 in Trenton New Jersey.**=
 * =**He attended Yale Law school and Princeton University.**=
 * =**MarriedMartha-Ann and had 2 kids.**=
 * =**1985-1987 He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General.**=
 * =**1987-1989 He was part of the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.**=
 * =**1990- George Bush (1st) nominated Alito for the U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit.**=
 * =**He argued 12 cases in the Supreme Court and 24 before the Federal Court of appeals.**=
 * =**Samual was involved in New Jersey's FederalBar Association.**=
 * =**Also participated in the American Bar Association and the Federal Society.**=
 * =**Became apart of the Supreme Court __UNDER GEORGE BUSH__.**=

=**Views: **=
 * =**Strongly believed in NOT having racial and ethnic quotas. (basically meaning that he didn't want laws that enforced equal amount of races in communities or schools.)**=
 * =**He believes that the Constitution does not allow abortion.**=
 * =**Alito tends to rule against the minority. **=
 * ** In his first term in the Supreme Court, he was conservative and voted with the other conservative members in the Supreme Court. **
 * **Then he changed by voting to keep execution in Missouri**.
 * = Although ** he did not want abortion, he believes that if a mother has a health threat during pregnancy, than she can abort her child.**=

|| [|John Roberts]
**__D.C CIRCUIT:__**
 * Born January 27, 1955 
 * He is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States of America 
 * Has served as CJ since 2005 
 * He is considered to be on the Judicial Conservative wing 
 * Before he was appointed the Supreme Court, he was a judge on the D.C Circuit for 2 years 
 * He previously spent fourteen years in private law practice and served in the Department of Justice and Office of the White House Council during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. 
 * Born in Buffalo, New York <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge Henry Friendly on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for one year. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1980-1981: clerked for William Rehnquist on the Supreme Court. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1981-1982: served on the Reagan administration as a special assistant to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1982-1986: served as Associate Counsel to the President under White House Counsel Fred Fielding. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1986: Entered private law practice at Hogan & Hartson. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1989-1993: Left Hogan & Hartson to serve in the George H. W. Bush administration as Principal Deputy Solicitor General. During this time he argued 39 cases in front of the Supreme Court winning 25 of them. He represented 18 states in the case UNITED STATES v. MICROSOFT <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1992: George H. W. Bush nominated him for the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. No Senate vote was held. His nomination expired when Bush left the office after losing the election <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">He returned to Hogan & Hartson as a partner and then became the head of the firm’s appellate practice while being a faculty member at the Georgetown University Law Center. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">During the late 1990s, while working for Hogan & Hartson, Roberts served as a member of the steering committee of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Federalist Society. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2000: He goes to Florida to advise Jeb Bush (former Governor of Florida) on the latter’s actions in the Florida election recount.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">May 10, 2001, George Bush nominated him for a different seat on the DC Circuit. Patrick Leahy, D-VT refused to give him a hearing in the 107th Congress, during this the Senate was controlled by the Democrats who where in conflict with Bush about his judicial nominees. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">January 7, 2003, GOP regained control of the Senate and Bush resubmitted his nomination.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">May 8, 2003, He confirmed his position
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">June 2, 2003, received commission.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">During his time on the DC Circuit, he authored 49 opinions, eliciting 2 dissents from other judges, and authoring 3 dissents of his own.

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">__NOTABLE DECISIONS ON THE DC CIRCUIT:__ <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">__SUPREME COURT:__ <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">__FUN STUFF__ <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Notes that the HEDGEPETH v. WASHINGTON METROPOLITAIN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY case was voted unconstitutional
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">In HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD, Roberts was part of a unanimous Circuit panel overturning the district court ruling and upholding <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;">[|military tribunals] set up by the Bush administration for trying <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;">[|terrorism] suspects known as <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;">[|enemy combatants].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">On the U.S Court of Appeals, he wrote a dissenting opinion about the case of RANCHO VIEJO, LLC v. NORTON. (Case involving the protection of a rare Californian toad under the endangered species act.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">July 19, 2005, George Bush nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy of Sandra Day O’ Conner. It was announced on TV, nationwide, from the East Room of the White House at 9 p.m., Eastern Time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">September 6, 2005, Bush withdrew Roberts’s nomination as O’Connor’s successor and announced that his new nomination was Chief Justice.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Bush asked the Senate to speed up the confirmation hearings so he could fill the vacancy by the beginning of the Supreme Court’s session in early October.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">September 22: Approved nomination
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">September 29: confirmed nomination
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Roberts was confirmed by a narrow margin for a Supreme Court Justice.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">September 29, 2005: Sworn in as Chief Justice by Justice John Paul Stevens in the East Room of the White House
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">October 3: took the judicial oath provided by the Judiciary Act of 1789 at the United States Supreme Court Building.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">January 17, 2006: Dissented along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in GONZALES v. OREGON (which was about how the controlled substances act does not allow the U.S attorney general to not allow doctors to prescribe drugs for the terminally ill.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">March 6, 2006: He wrote the unanimous decision in RUMSFELD v. FORUM FOR ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Roberts opposes the use of race in assigning students to particular schools, including for purposes such as maintaining integrated schools. He sees such plans as discrimination in violation of the constitution's equal protection clause and BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Roberts authored the 2007 student free speech case MORSE v. FREDERICK ruling that a student in a public school-sponsored activity does not have the right to advocate <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;">[|drug use] on the basis that the right to free speech does not invariably prevent the exercise of school discipline
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">January 21, 2009: He administered the second oath of office to Barrack Obama
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Obama had previously voted against his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Making this the first time a Supreme Court justice swore in a president who voted against his confirmation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">July 30, 2007: He suffered from a seizure. As a result of the seizure he fell 5 to 10 feet on a sock near his vacation house but only suffered minor scrapes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">He had suffered a similar seizure in 1993
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">When he was 50 he became the youngest member of the Court and the 3rd youngest person to have become Chief Justice.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">He is one of the 12 Catholic justices (out of 110 justices total in the history of the Supreme Court)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">He has adopted 2 kids: John and Josephine

·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Born January 27, 1955 in Buffalo, NY. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Seventeenth Chief Justice. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Was given the Oath by John Paul Stevens ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Served since 2005 when he was appointed by Bush. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Originally nominated for the seat of Sandra Day O’Connor, but when Rehnquist died, Bush withdrew the application and re-nominated him for Chief Justice. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He was a Judge on the D.C. Circuit ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He is considered to be on the conservative wing of the court. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He believes in a narrow interpretation of the Constitution and limited government. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He previously clerked for William H. Rehnquist from 1980 to 1981. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He administered the Oath of Office to President-elect Obama, but he messed up, so he had to redo it later in the White House. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">On July 30, 2007, he experienced a seizure while at his vacation home, and fell 12 feet off of a dock, but only suffered minor injuries. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He was later diagnosed with Epilepsy. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In Morse v. Frederick he ruled that the First Amendment right to free speech does not protect drug advocation in a public school-sponsored activity. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He supports some abortion restrictions. In Gonzales v. Carhart, he voted to uphold the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

John Paul Stevens-


 * John is the oldest judge of the supreme court
 * He joined the court in 1975
 * He was appointed by Gerald Ford
 * He is the only current judge that served under 3 chief justices
 * Those justices were: Warren E. Burger, William Rehnquist and John G. Roberts
 * John was born on April 20, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois
 * He was born into a wealthy family
 * His father was a lawyer and later on owned to hotel
 * His mother was a English teacher
 * The family lived in Hyde Park
 * He went to The University Of Chicago Laboratory School
 * Around 1941 he joined the United States Navy serving as an intelligence officer in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1945
 * He came back to Illinois to return but his told him to go to law school so he did
 * He enrolled in Northwestern University School of Law in 1945
 * He was a really good like brilliant and he had the highest GPA in the history of the school
 * He married Elizabeth Jane Shereen in June of 1942 and then divorced her in 1979
 * That December he married Maryan Mulholland Simon
 * He has four children John Joseph who died in 1986 from cancer, Kathryn, Elizabeth, and Susan
 * He served as a clerk to a justice named Wiley Rutledge from 1947 to 1948
 * Then he joined the law firm of Poppenhusen, Johnston, and Raymond
 * John is liberal
 * John usually studies notes on the cases very carefully and the good parts of the cases
 * People call him the wildcard in the court

Associate Justices===

[|Samuel Alito]

[|Stephen Breyer]

[|Ruth Bader Ginsburg][|Anthony Kennedy]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Born on March 13, 1933 in New York ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Ruth went to Cornell University, and attended Harvard Law School ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> She was nominated for United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Carter in 1980, which she served for 13 years ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> In the Court of Appeals, served under Edmund L. Palmieri (1959-1961) ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> In 1993, President Clinton nominated her for Associate justice of the Supreme Court. Was sworn in as the 107th justice of the Supreme Court ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Only the second women ever to be in a justice in the Supreme Court (the first was Sandra Day O’Connor), and the first Jewish justice since 1969 ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Said to be one of the more liberal judges (nominated by Clinton – democrat) ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Ginsburg strongly supports abortion right, and e even though leans liberal, will sometimes vote conservative, criticized the Roe v. Wade case as a ‘democratic movement to liberalize abortion rights…’ ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Also strongly supports equality and women’s rights ·<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> Now has pancreatic cancer at age 76 -Rose

David Hackett Souter David Souter Brigid Donnellan 3/31/09 ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">  He has never married though once engaged ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> He has no cell phone, no television, no answering machine and no email. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> He was in a FRATERNITY!!!!!! ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> After Harvard he went to work for a local law firm and practiced everything from corporate law to general litigation. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">He received a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford; ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">He spent the next two years earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in jurisprudence from Magdalen College. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">Souter returned to the United States in 1963 to study law at Harvard. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">He had trusteeships the Historical Society and the Concord Hospital ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">He is friends with Scallia. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">He was a conservative and now hes a liberal. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">He lives the simple life, he brings his own lunch to court, and lives in an undecorated apartment. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 15, 69); line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial;">Every summer he goes home to Weare, where he climbs the local mountains and visits his MAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! David ranks fourth in seniority in the supreme court and usually votes liberal, though he used to be a conservative. He went to a local high school and then went to Harvard University and graduated in 1961. He was received a Rhodes scholarship and went on to Magdalen College. He went to Harvard Law School graduating in 1966. He has trusteeships with the Historical Society and the Concord Hospital. After school he went to work at a private practice, hated it, and then went on to an assistant attorney general of New Hampshire. In 1978 he became the Attorney General of New Hampshire. In 1978 he became an associate justice of New Hampshire, there he was noticed for his tough sentencing and the way he treated people from behind the bench. He then went on to the New Hampshire Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in 1983. George H. W. Bush nominated him in July of 1990 and he took his seat in October of 1990. He passed with the votes of the senate 90-9 and the secondary judiciary by 14-3. The day he got sworn in, he said, “"The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right."

He lives the simple life; he has no TV, no email, no cell phone or Email. He has never married although he was engaged once. He always brings his healthy lunch to court, and lives in an undecorated apartment. And every summer he goes home to Weare, where he climbs local mountains and visits HIS MAMA!!!!!!! [|Antonin Scalia]

[|David Hackett Souter] [|John Paul Stevens] [|Clarence Thomas]

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Stephen Breyer: Vanessa Barnes

Stephen Breyer was born in Sacramento California in 1938. He grew up in a lower middle class family and went to a public high school and elementary. For college he attended Stanford University A.B., Magdalene College, and Harvard law school. Out of college he worked as an Assistant Special Prosecutor in 1973, a Special Counsel of The United Sates Senate Judiciary Committee from 1974-1975, he also was the chief of the Judiciary Committee. He also taught at Harvard law school from 1980-1990. He was Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals; Jimmy Carter nominated him for this job. He was a member of the Judicial Conference and the Sentencing Commission from 1984-1985. President Bill Clinton nominated him in 1994. Stephen Breyer has a pragmatic approach to the constitutional law, which means that he uses real effects or consequences to tell weather the case was guilty or non-guilty. Stephen Breyer has written many textbooks about law. He upheld many parental notifications about teenage abortion, and that health officials should not be advising teens for abortion. Stephen enjoys bicycling, jogging, cooking, and reading.

Clarence Thomas - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Went to Yale - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Very Christian - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Believes states should have power and should limit federal power - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Said it was ok for California to let citizens grow marijuana - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Grew up in very poor conditions in Savannah - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> VERY conservative - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Leader of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Appointed by Bush Sr.

Clarence Thomas (11th seat on U.S. Supreme Court Jury) He votes far right, and rights many dissents to recent cases, such as Gall v. U.S. A while ago, it was pointed out that he often votes on the Jury Scalia’s side. Since then he has more branched out and voiced his opinions more. His is mostly known for his swearing-in process. It took an unusually long amount of time for him to be sworn in because he was accused of sexually harassing a former employee, Anita Hill. Views:
 * Birthplace: Pin Point, GA in 1948
 * Father abandoned him young
 * House fire temporarily made them homeless
 * He is an African-American
 * He is Roman-Catholic
 * He grew up lower class
 * He was nominated by Bush (The First) in 1991
 * He is kwon as quite far right (conservative)
 * Originalist (believe in constitution as seen in the eyes of the authors.
 * Support Commerence Clause
 * Strongly into Free Speech
 * Believes in “Searches and Seizures” (4th amendment)
 * Pro-Death Penalty
 * Pro-Life