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The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States. Its membership consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices. The justices are nominated by the President of the United States and appointed after confirmation by the United States Senate. Justices of the Supreme Court have life tenure and receive a salary which is set at $255,500 per year for the chief justice and at $244,400 per year for each associate justice as of 2014. On August 7, 2010, Justice Elena Kagan became the 112th justice to serve on the Court.
The Supreme Court was created in 1789 by Article III of the United States Constitution, which stipulates that the "judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court" together with any lower courts Congress may establish. Congress organized the Court that year with the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789. It specified the Court's original and appellate jurisdiction, created thirteen judicial districts, and fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices).
A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, apex court, and highest court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of a supreme court are not subject to further review by any other court. Supreme courts typically function primarily as appellate courts, hearing appeals from decisions of lower trial courts, or from intermediate-level appellate courts.
However, not all highest courts are named as such. Civil law states do not tend to have singular highest courts. Additionally, the highest court in some jurisdictions is not named the "Supreme Court", for example, the High Court of Australia; this is because decisions by the High Court could formerly be appealed to the Privy Council. On the other hand, in some places the court named the "Supreme Court" is not in fact the highest court; examples include the New York Supreme Court, the Supreme Courts of several Canadian provinces/territories and the former Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales, which are all superseded by higher Courts of Appeal.
Oprah Gail Winfrey, born January 29, 1954, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is now North America's first and only multi-billionaire Black. Several assessments regard her as the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and took the oath of office on February 18, 1988. He is the most senior Associate Justice on the court, following the death of Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016. Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy has been the swing vote on many of the Court's 5–4 decisions. He has authored the majority ruling in many of these cases, including Lawrence v. Texas, Boumediene v. Bush, Citizens United v. FEC, and Obergefell v. Hodges. Helen J. Knowles argues, "libertarian principles play prominent roles in Justice Kennedy's judicial opinions in several areas of the law," especially "privacy rights, race, and free speech".
Kennedy was born and raised in an Irish Catholic family in Sacramento, California. He was the son of Anthony J. Kennedy, an attorney with a reputation for influence in the California legislature, and Gladys (née McLeod), who participated in many local civic activities. As a boy, Kennedy came into contact with prominent politicians of the day, such as California Governor and later U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren. He served as a page in the California State Senate as a young man.
Actors: Mario Grigorov (composer), Victor Varnado (actor), Brigitte Hagerman (actress), Robert Boileau (actor), James P. Anderson (actor), Peter Demas (producer), Robert Freedman (actor), Peter Demas (actor), John Hockenberry (actor), Ian Jarvis (actor), Scott Abbondanzo (actor), Brandon Taylor (actor), Hans Longo (actor), Anna Korenius (actress), Nina Fleck (actress),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Mario Grigorov (composer), Victor Varnado (actor), Brigitte Hagerman (actress), Robert Boileau (actor), James P. Anderson (actor), Peter Demas (producer), Robert Freedman (actor), Peter Demas (actor), John Hockenberry (actor), Ian Jarvis (actor), Scott Abbondanzo (actor), Brandon Taylor (actor), Hans Longo (actor), Anna Korenius (actress), Nina Fleck (actress),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Mario Grigorov (composer), Victor Varnado (actor), Brigitte Hagerman (actress), Robert Boileau (actor), James P. Anderson (actor), Peter Demas (producer), Robert Freedman (actor), Peter Demas (actor), John Hockenberry (actor), Ian Jarvis (actor), Scott Abbondanzo (actor), Brandon Taylor (actor), Hans Longo (actor), Anna Korenius (actress), Nina Fleck (actress),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Mario Grigorov (composer), Victor Varnado (actor), Brigitte Hagerman (actress), Robert Boileau (actor), James P. Anderson (actor), Peter Demas (producer), Robert Freedman (actor), Peter Demas (actor), John Hockenberry (actor), Ian Jarvis (actor), Scott Abbondanzo (actor), Brandon Taylor (actor), Hans Longo (actor), Anna Korenius (actress), Nina Fleck (actress),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Barnard Hughes (actor), Smith Wordes (actress), Robert Michael Lewis (director), George Peppard (actor), Lalo Schifrin (composer), Robert F. Shugrue (editor), William Windom (actor), Paul Fix (actor), John Crawford (actor), George Murdock (actor), Jerry Hardin (actor), Harve Bennett (producer), Russell Thorson (actor), John Harkins (actor), William Sylvester (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Frank Gerstle (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Everett Glass (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Richard Garrick (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), James Conaty (actor), Johnny Downs (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Sam Harris (actor),
Plot: Boisterous, fun-loving, and popular Washington D.C. hostess Sally Adams is appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg, Europe's smallest country. In Lichtenburg, the Duke and Duchess are negotiating a political marriage for their niece, Princess Maria in exchange for a substantial dowry. However, the country is desperate for funds, and turns to the inexperienced ambassador for a much needed U.S. loan. Sally refuses to talk money, that is, until she meets the ultra charming Gen. Cosmo Constantine. Meanwhile, Sally's press attaché Kenneth Gibson falls head over heels for Princess Maria.
Keywords: 1950s, actress, alps, ambassador, american, american-embassy, amusement-park, arranged-marriage, ballet, balloonActors: Holmes Herbert (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor), Richard Anderson (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Fred Gilman (actor), Everett Glass (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Charles Evans (actor), Eduard Franz (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Hooper Atchley (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Richard Carlson (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Sam Finn (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Jesse Graves (actor), Porter Hall (actor), Kenneth Harlan (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Erville Alderson (actor),
Plot: In the small town of Crown Port local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
Keywords: barber, bed, corruption, courtroom, duck, election, farmer, fight, game-warden, hatActors: Woodrow Wilson (actor), Franklin D. Roosevelt (actor), Louis De Francesco (composer), Almira Sessions (actress), Peter Brunelli (composer), John McIntire (actor), Theodore Roosevelt (actor), Louis De Rochemont (director), Louis De Rochemont (producer), Lothar Wolff (editor), Andrea King (actress), Jacques Belasco (composer), Elliott Reid (actor), James L. Shute (miscellaneous crew), Westbrook Van Voorhis (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Bert Moorhouse (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), James Conaty (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Edward Earle (actor), J.C. Fowler (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), William Irving (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Herbert Marshall (actor), Edmund Mortimer (actor),
Plot: Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their daughter Ellen. When Steve divorce's Cynthia, even his mother is on Cynthia's side. While pleading a case in Washington, Steve meets a woman named Maris and falls for her. Maris does not know if she is going to the altar or the chopping block, but they marry and come back to his hometown. Unfortunately, Maris is the outsider, and being a small town where Cynthia and Steve grew up, everyone is Cynthia's friend and not Maris. Cynthia will use every occasion, every trick, including Ellen, to try to ruin the life that Steve has with Maris.
Keywords: christmas, country-club, courthouse, divorce, domineering-wife, fake-illness, family-relationships, grandmother, husband-wife-relationship, lawyerThe supreme court makes me barf
The supreme court makes me puke
It's the one thing in the world
That I want to nuke
No freedom of speech