The chief justice is an ex officio member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and, by custom, is elected chancellor of the board. Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 17 people have served as chief justice, beginning with John Jay (1789–1795).
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the distinctive titles of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1866, Salmon P.
Since 1789, 15 presidents have made a total of 22 official nominations to the position. The salary of the chief justice is set by Congress; the current (2021) annual salary is $280,500, which is slightly higher than that of associate justices, which is $268,300.
Currently, Clarence Thomas is the most senior associate justice. == List of chief justices == Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, the following 17 men have served as chief justice: ===Notes=== ==References== ==Further reading== Flanders, Henry.
William Cushing, an associate justice of the Supreme Court, administered Washington's second oath of office in 1793.
President Washington gave him a recess appointment in 1795.
Similarly, when Associate Justice William Cushing was nominated and confirmed as chief justice in January 1796 but declined the office, he too remained on the court.
Additionally, in December 1800, former Chief Justice John Jay was nominated and confirmed to the position a second time but ultimately declined it, opening the way for the appointment of John Marshall. ==Powers and duties== Along with his general responsibilities as a member of the Supreme Court, the chief justice has several unique duties to fulfill. ===Impeachment trials=== Article I, Section 3 of the U.S.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the distinctive titles of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1866, Salmon P.
The associate justice title was not altered in 1866 and remains as originally created. The chief justice, like all federal judges, is nominated by the president and confirmed to office by the U.S.
Lippincott & Co., 1874 at Google Books. ==External links== Legal professions Supreme Court of the United States people 1789 establishments in the United States
The first person whose Supreme Court commission contained the modified title was Melville Fuller in 1888.
There is no specific constitutional prohibition against using another method to select the chief justice from among those justices properly appointed and confirmed to the Supreme Court. Three incumbent associate justices have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate as chief justice: Edward Douglass White in 1910, Harlan Fiske Stone in 1941, and William Rehnquist in 1986.
In 1930, former Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes was confirmed as chief justice.
There is no specific constitutional prohibition against using another method to select the chief justice from among those justices properly appointed and confirmed to the Supreme Court. Three incumbent associate justices have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate as chief justice: Edward Douglass White in 1910, Harlan Fiske Stone in 1941, and William Rehnquist in 1986.
On November 22, 1963, after the assassination of President John F.
A fourth, Abe Fortas, was nominated to the position in 1968 but was not confirmed.
There is no specific constitutional prohibition against using another method to select the chief justice from among those justices properly appointed and confirmed to the Supreme Court. Three incumbent associate justices have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate as chief justice: Edward Douglass White in 1910, Harlan Fiske Stone in 1941, and William Rehnquist in 1986.
Although the Constitution is silent on the matter, the chief justice would, under Senate rules adopted in 1999 prior to the Clinton trial, preside over the trial of an impeached vice president.
The current chief justice is John Roberts (since 2005).
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