…This environment discouraged the Supreme Court Justices from traveling to Washington, so they conducted most of their work from their homes. Before the Supreme Court building was approved, Charles Evans… […]

Justice Byron R. White, 1963 The United States Supreme Court first assembled on February 1, 1790, in the Exchange Building in New York City – then the Nation’s Capital. Karsh… […]

…Warren is the last Supreme Court justice to have served as governor of a U.S. state, the last justice to have been elected to statewide elected office, and the last… […]

…for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views, and is often cited as the U.S. Supreme Court’s most liberal justice ever. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, Douglas… […]

Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1944 Mr. Karsh photographed Supreme Court justices in both the USA and Canada throughout his career. Digitized images available of such Sitters include those of Americans Thurgood… […]

…Court, and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of United States. Read more (Wikipedia). In 1964, Macmillan… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 Thurgood Marshall was officially sworn in to the nation’s highest court at the opening ceremony of the Supreme Court term on October 2, 1967. President Johnson nominated… […]

…an American lawyer and scholar involved in landmark civil rights, school desegregation, and criminal procedure cases before the United States Supreme Court. Approximately 30 Karsh Sittings mention “Supreme Court” in… […]

Earl Warren, 1955 On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in “Brown v. Board of Education”, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court on this day, in 1967. On August 30, 1967, after a… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court on this day, in 1967. The Senate confirmed Marshall’s nomination by… […]

Justice William Brennan, 1963 45 years ago today, January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court made its decision that a right to privacy extended to a woman’s decision to… […]

…States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Karsh photographed Frankfurter on assignment… […]

…the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967, nominated by Harry Truman, and succeeded by Thurgood Marshall. Clark served on the Warren Court – see the Karsh… […]

…investigation into the assassination was Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. Warren served on the Supreme Court from 1953–1969. He was photographed twice during his tenure – in 1955, on… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 The United States Supreme Court’s first African-American justice, Thurgood Marshall, was born on July 2, in 1908 (d. 1993). A lawyer and civil rights activist, he served… […]

Réné Levesque, 1978 This portrait of René Lévesque, the 23rd Premier of Quebec (1976-1985), is included in a book about Canadian Supreme Court justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, (out now from University… […]

Richard Nixon, 1969 On July 24, 1974, in United States v. Nixon, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the “Watergate” tapes were void. The Court… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 On this day, August 30, in 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a United States Supreme Court justice. He was nominated… […]

Arthur Goldberg, 1963 Arthur Goldberg was an American statesman and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. Secretary of Labor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United… […]

Thurgood Marshall, 1957 On this day, August 30, in 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a United States Supreme Court justice. He was nominated… […]

…from 1945 to 1949 and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967. He was photographed on this day, February 17, in 1963…. […]

William O. Douglas, 1963 William O. Douglas (1898-1980) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975…. […]

First official Canadian Citizenship ceremony at the Supreme Court building, with Karsh in the back row, January, 1947 In a letter to the Ottawa Citizen, (January 12, 2017) Lilly Koltun,… […]

…North Country Public Radio we now have a full caption for this image of the first officially naturalized citizens of Canada after a ceremony at the Supreme Court of Canada… […]

…illegal to impose restrictions on federal, state and local elections that were designed to deny the vote to blacks. In 2013, the US Supreme Court essentially gutted Section 5 of… […]