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Authors
Gerhardt, Michael J.
Issue Date
2007
Volume
40
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|In 2006, one chapter in the history of the Supreme Court came to a close, and a new one began. The Senate's confirmation of Samuel Alito, Jr., as the Supreme Court's 110th justice, signaled the formal end to the nearly twenty-five-year-long tenure of the first woman appointed to the Court, Sandra Day O'Connor. Justice Alito's appointment further marked the end to the second longest period in our nation's history without a vacancy arising on the Court. With Justice Alito's confirmation, Justice Stephen Breyer fell a couple months shy of the record for the longest serving junior justice in American history. The appointments of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito also marked the first time since 1971 that two new justices joined the Court during the same Term...
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40 Creighton L. Rev. 399 (2006-2007)
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Creighton University School of Law