History of Supreme Court Nominations
Featuring the definitive documented history of both successful and unsuccessful Supreme Court nominations through that of Associate Amy Coney Barrett.
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About the History of Supreme Court Nominations Database
HeinOnline’s History of Supreme Court Nominations features the complete series of Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee by Roy M. Mersky and J. Myron Jacobstein. In addition, users can search more than 400 titles containing relevant government documents, scholarly articles, and bibliographies applicable to each Supreme Court Justice.
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Coverage of Supreme Court Justices
Users will find nomination materials and confirmation documents (where applicable) for the following Supreme Court Justices:
- Amy Coney Barrett
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Neil Gorsuch
- Elena Kagan
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Samuel Alito
- John G. Roberts
- Stephen Breyer
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Clarence Thomas
- David Souter
- Anthony Kennedy
- Antonin Scalia
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- John Paul Stevens
- William Rehnquist
- Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
- Harry Blackmun
- Warren E. Burger
- Thurgood Marshall
- Abe Fortas
- Byron White
- Arthur Goldberg
- Potter Stewart
- Charles Evans Whittaker
- William J. Brennan, Jr.
- John Marshall Harlan II
- Earl Warren
- Tom C. Clark
- Sherman Minton
- Fred M. Vinson
- Harold Hitz Burton
- Wiley Blount Rutledge
- Robert H. Jackson
- James F. Byrnes
- Frank Murphy
- William O. Douglas
- Felix Frankfurter
- Stanley Forman Reed
- Hugo Black
- Benjamin N. Cardozo
- Owen Roberts
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Harlan F. Stone
- Pierce Butler
- Edward Terry Sanford
- George Sutherland
- William Howard Taft
- Louis Brandeis
- John Hessin Clarke
- James Clark McReynolds
- Mahlon Pitney
- Willis Van Devanter
- Joseph Rucker Lamar
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Horace Harmon Lurton
- William Henry Moody
- William R. Day
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Joseph McKenna
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham
- Edward Douglass White
- Howell Edmunds Jackson
- George Shiras, Jr.
- Henry Billings Brown
- David Josiah Brewer
- Melville Fuller
- Lucius Quintus
- Horace Gray
- Samuel Blatchford
- Stanley Matthews
- William Burnham Woods
- John Marshall Harlan
- Morrison Waite
- Ward Hunt
- Joseph P. Bradley
- William Strong
- Salmon P. Chase
- Stephen Johnson Field
- Samuel Freeman Miller
- Noah Haynes Swayne
- David Davis
- Nathan Clifford
- John Archibald Campbell
- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
- Robert Cooper Grier
- Samuel Nelson
- Levi Woodbury
- Peter Vivian Daniel
- John Catron
- John McKinley
- Roger B. Taney
- Philip Pendleton Barbour
- James Moore Wayne
- John McLean
- Henry Baldwin
- Robert Trimble
- Smith Thompson
- Joseph Story
- Gabriel Duvall
- Thomas Todd
- Henry Brockholst Livingston
- William Johnson
- John Marshall
- Alfred Moore
- Bushrod Washington
- Samuel Chase
- Oliver Ellsworth
- John Rutledge
- William Paterson
- Thomas Johnson
- James Iredell
- William Cushing
- James Wilson
- John Blair, Jr.
- John Jay
- John Rutledge
- Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
- Douglas H. Ginsburg
- George H. Carswell
- Robert H. Bork
- Amy Coney Barrett
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Neil Gorsuch
- Elena Kagan
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Samuel Alito
- Stephen Breyer
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Clarence Thomas
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- And more than 100 more!
Database Tools and Features
Comprehensive Supreme Court Nominations
Browse the digitized full text of Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Browse by Justice Tool
Dive into the hearings, reports, memoranda, and more relating to the nomination of a particular justice with our interactive Browse by Justice tool.
Additional Related Materials
Find nearly 80 Congressional Research Service reports, scholarly articles, and bibliographies on each nomination, as well as OCLC and ISSN links to WorldCat.