To Change the Quorum of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 4 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2808 ... June 11 and 24, 1943U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - 42 pages |
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Page 38 - The Constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one supreme court and such inferior courts as Congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 34 - That the supreme court of the United States shall consist of a chief justice and five associate justices, any four of whom shall be a quorum, and shall hold annually at the seat of government two sessions, the one commencing the first Monday of February, and the other the first Monday of August.
Page 10 - The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, courts of appeals, courts of common pleas, * * * and such other courts inferior to the • * * supreme court as may from time to time be established by law.
Page 9 - I am not a member of the subcommittee but I would like to read this telegram and ask the Secretary and General Stone and others who are here as witnesses Mr.
Page 20 - And the more it can be brought to the surface with identity, the stronger the fiber of our formulation of new ideas, new policies, it really becomes. I stress that again as we wind up these preliminary sessions of this committee. The committee will now stand in recess, subject to the call of the chairman, Senator Pastore, which call has already been advertised as soon after the opening of the next session of Congress, at which time we will have additional thoughts and testimony from the appropriate...
Page 42 - If not, we are very much obliged to you, gentlemen. We appreciate your attendance.
Page 35 - July, 1866,° provided that no vacancy in the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court should be filled by appointment until the number of Associate Justices should be reduced to six, and that thereafter the Supreme Court should consist of a Chief Justice and six Associates.
Page 25 - ... Court have had something more to do with the case then the mere pro forma relations which an Attorney General often has with cases in the Department of Justice." Apparently, Stone rarely disqualified himself, although he did so, for example, in the Aluminum Co. case because it seemed to him that his connection with it as Attorney General was "so intimate" for a time that it was "distinctly undesirable" that he should assume to sit in it.1 Attachment.
Page 20 - History, won the Pulitzer Prize for the best book on American history...
Page 31 - CHIEF JUSTICE STONE: Well, of course there is this distinction: I do not know how far it applies to the Supreme Court, but it does to other courts. There are many cases, or some cases in which the lower court federal judges are forbidden by statute to sit.