Supreme Court Justices

How to deal with the judges of the Supreme Court to change the leadership on the bench?

With the news that the Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is planning to retire this summer, a lot of speculation about who will nominate President Obama, but C-SPAN provides an inside look at how the judges themselves, to respond to the new members of the Supreme Court.

Had compiled the following quotation from the Supreme Court as part of their own: "Home to the highest court in America," which aired in October:

Roberts, President of the Supreme Court:

"To some extent, this is cause for concern. Quickly get to the opinion of the Court as - the Court as consisting of those members, and becomes kind of hard to think of it as involving anyone else. I think it's like people look at their families. You know, this is How can the family, as you know, to be different, but you get the new arrivals in each of those cases, and the immense sense of loss.

"Justice White always used to say, 'and when it gets to court a new member, changed everything.' Changes of all, simple changes. Move seats around in the courtroom. The seats are the order of seniority, and thus there will be a shift there, in the same conference room, But more importantly than that, I think, it can cause you to take a fresh look at how things are decided. the new member will have a particular point of view on how this should be dealt with problems that may be very different from what we have for some time yet, so it is exciting part of life in the court. "

Justice Kennedy:

"It's a new court, and when I was trying cases, the jury, which is usually 12, if the juror had to be replaced because one was sick or something, I do not - it's just a different dynamic, and the jury is different, and it's the same way here, and this court will be very different.

"It's stressful for us because we are big fans of our colleagues, and we wonder, oh, it will be ever the same? But I have great admiration for the system. The system works, and this gives us the opportunity, once again, to look at ourselves to make sure we do it the right way so the new justice will be able to take some instructions from our example if we do it the right way, I am confident that new justice can always ask the question, "Well, what do you do this?" then we should think about whether we should continue to do so. "
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Justice Alito:

C-SPAN: "We have heard a lot in our discussion with the judges of Justice Beginner's privileges and responsibilities, especially in this conference, could you explain how it works?"

Alito: "I do not think that justice junior to have any special privileges, but Justice Young two duties. First, and less expensive, is to open the door in the conference, and when we meet in the conference lack of staff members present, and sometimes someone will knock on the door. It is important for young Justice to get a reply on the door, and it's usually someone glasses or note or something like that. "

"And then other duty is to maintain a formal vote to grant cert, or the decision to hold this issue. When we have a conference we will go through a long list of cases, and we will vote on whether we're going to take the case or deny it or do something else. It was the responsibility of Justice small again, where there are currently staff, to maintain a formal vote. "

C-SPAN: "What about the judges speak at the conference? And I understand that it is seniority in most of the novices, which is an advantage or disadvantage?"

Alito: "Well, I think it's a disadvantage to justice small because at the time she speaks to everyone who speaks a voice, so when you are junior, which until now, by the time you got me, you do not irrelevant or I'm very important depending on the how to vote and get out of it. "

Justice Ginsburg:

C-SPAN: "so the new justice comes to this court, and they come to you and sit in your office and say tell me what you should know about this court, which will make the experience better. What do you say to them?"

Ginsburg: "I would say you will be surprised by the high level of collegiality here, and this term, I think that we divided into five four in almost one third of all cases. One may get a false impression to such a degree of controversy. Justice Scalia commented once that In his early years on the court, there was no Justice who disagreed with them in many cases, Justice Brennan, after consideration of Justice, Justice Scalia, Brennan, his best friend in court at that time was believed to be feeling similarly, and the public will not know that from reading the opinion by Brennan, a native of Scalia, or vice versa, but these are two of the men who love each other sincerely and enjoy each other's company. "
Supreme Court Justices