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Supreme Court Justices
…statewide elected office, and the last serving politician to be elevated to the Supreme Court. (Wikipedia) This portrait features on the cover of the The Warren Court (Macmillan Books, 1964)….
The U.S. Supreme Court
…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…
Supreme Court Justices
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…
Earl Warren
…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
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…
Earl Warren
…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…
Thurgood Marshall
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
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…
Roe vs. Wade
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…
Justice Felix Frankfurter
…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…
Justice William O. Douglas
Justice William O. Douglas, 1944 William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was known…
Justice Tom C. Clark
…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…
The Warren Commission
…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
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…
René Lévesque
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…
Watergate Scandal
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
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…
Earl Warren: Brown v. Board of Education
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…
Arthur Goldberg
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
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…
Tom Clark
…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….
Exhibit Citizen Karsh’s Collection
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,…
Canada Day
…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…
Voting Rights Act
…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…