Supplement to Impeachment
Study Guide .3
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME
COURT AND PARTY
AFFILIATIONS
The
Justices who serve on the U.S. Supreme are members of either the Republican
Party or Democratic Party.
The
Republican Party abbreviation is “R”, and the Democratic Party abbreviation is
“D”. For example, the Chief Justice
of the U.S. Supreme Court is William Rehnquist, a
Republican. In 1971, he was nominated as Associate
Justice by President
Nixon. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan
appointed him as Chief Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. Nixon and Reagan are both Republicans.
Current Associate
Justices
In
1981, President Reagan
appointed Sandra Day O’Connor as
Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. She
is the
first woman
appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in United States history. Like President Reagan, Justice O’Connor
is Republican.
In
1986, President Reagan
appointed Antonin Scalia as
Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. Like President Reagan, Justice Scalia is
Republican.
In
1991, President George Bush, the
elder, appointed Clarence Thomas as
Associate Justice. Like President
Bush, Justice Thomas is Republican.
In
1993, President Bill Clinton
appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg as
Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Like
President Clinton, Justice Ginsburg is a Democrat.
In
1994, President Clinton
appointed Steven Breyer as
Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. Like President
Clinton,
Justice
Breyer is a Democrat.
Notes, 1:00 p.m. Spring
2001, January 31, 2001
RECENT
U.S. PRESIDENTS
Lyndon
B.
Johnson became
President when President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated on November 22, 1963.
He was elected President in his own right by defeating Barry Goldwater in
1964. President Johnson was
responsible for the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution. That
resolution was intended to control the aggression of the North Vietnam armed
forces. It also increased American
involvement in the Vietnam War.
Richard
M. Nixon was
elected twice as President of the United States, but did not finish his second
term. The incumbent Vice-President,
Gerald R. Ford,
became President on August 9, 1974 after Nixon resigned the
Presidency.
Jimmy
Carter
defeated
President Ford in the 1976 election.
Carter served as President from 1977 to 1981. Carter became an unpopular President
after students in Iran held American hostages captive for 444 days. .
Ronald
Reagan
defeated President Carter in the 1980 election. Carter served only one term as
President. The American hostages
were finally released by Iran minutes after Reagan took the oath of office as
President of the United States.
President
Reagan was elected to two terms as President of the United States. His vice-president was George Bush, the
elder.
George
Bush was
elected President in 1988. Bush
served only one term as President.
Bill
Clinton
defeated
George Bush in the election of 1992.
Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole in the 1996 election. Clinton was elected to two terms as
President of the United States.
George
W.
Bush
defeated Al Gore in the
election of 2000. It was a very
contested election that was finally decided by the United States Supreme Court
in December of 2000.
For a
list of United States Presidents that we have discussed, click
here.