Assertion: supreme court's justice | /r/HasProperty | appointed
Facets:
value: from among the judges
type: OTHER
value: up until the 1980s
type: TEMPORAL
value: from among members of congress
type: OTHER
value: from states on the east coast
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The current Colorado Supreme Court's membership, and the date each Justice was appointed, is as follows:
text: The six justices each represent a Supreme Court district; the chief justice is appointed (and retained) at-large.
text: The issue of regional diversity was again raised with the 2010 retirement of John Paul Stevens, who had been appointed from the midwestern Seventh Circuit, leaving the Court with all but one Justice having been appointed from states on the East Coast.
text: Up until the 1980s, only six justices of "central, eastern, or southern European derivation" had been appointed, and even among these six justices, five of them "were of Germanic background, which includes Austrian, German-Bohemian, and Swiss origins (John Catron, Samuel F. Miller, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and Warren Burger)", with Brandeis and Frankfurter being of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, while only one justice was of non-Germanic, Southern European descent (Benjamin N. Cardozo, of Sephardic Jewish descent).
text: However, justices tend to be appointed after having made significant achievements in law or politics, which excludes many young potential candidates from consideration.
text: The first justice to be appointed who had attended an actual law school was Levi Woodbury, appointed to the Court in 1846.
text: Relatively few justices have been appointed from among members of Congress.
text: Numerous justices were appointed who had served in the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War (including three who had served in the Army of the Confederacy), World War I and World War II.
text: However, no justice has been appointed who has served in any subsequent war.
text: Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed from among the judges who have worked for seven years as judges of the High Courts, or Gazetted first class officer of Judicial Service for minimum 12 years or have worked as any Senior Advocate or Advocate with minimum practicing experience of fifteen years, or a distinguished jurist who has worked for minimum 15 years in the judicial or legal field.
text: The intent behind this procedure is to eliminate any concern that temporary associate justices are appointed because of their personal views on legal issues.
text: The last Justice to be appointed who did not attend any law school was James F. Byrnes (1941-1942).