On July 9, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.

New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, who wrote the essay, covered Kavanaugh's contentious 2018 confirmation hearings, in which Christine Blasey Ford alleged that he had sexually assaulted her at a house party when they were both teenagers.

Many Democrats in the Senate feared that the appointment of Kavanaugh would swing the Court in a more ideologically conservative direction and attempted to block his nomination. After a heated Senate confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh was eventually confirmed by a 50-48 vote in the Senate.

Learn more about the Dred Scott decision and why it is considered the worst U.S. Supreme Court ruling in history. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

A lawsuit filed by a person, organization, or government against another person, organization, or government. What is a request for review of a case by the U.S. Supreme Court called? Writ of certiorari.

Marbury v. Madison (1803) | PBS. The landmark 1803 case Marbury v. Madison marked the first time the Court asserted its role in reviewing federal legislation to determine its compatibility with the Constitution -- the function of judicial review.

These are the 7 famous Supreme Court cases that have defined a nation.

• Marbury v. Madison.
• Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• Brown v. Board of Education.
• Mapp v. Ohio.
• Gideon v. Wainwright.
• Miranda v. Arizona.
• Roe v. Wade.

The primary means to petition the court for review is to ask it to grant a writ of certiorari. This is a request that the Supreme Court order a lower court to send up the record of the case for review.

In a petition for a writ of certiorari, a party asks the Court to review its case. The Supreme Court agrees to hear about 100-150 of the more than 7,000 cases that it is asked to review each year.

The top 30 countries for the rule of law according to WJP in 2022 are:

• Denmark.
• Norway.
• Finland.
• Sweden.
• Netherlands.
• Germany.
• New Zealand.
• Luxembourg.

Scholars have hailed India's Supreme Court as the most powerful in the world - and not without reason. The 73-year-old court can nullify executive acts, parliamentary laws and amendments to the Constitution.

the Old Bailey The City of London website describes the Old Bailey as 'the most famous criminal court in the world', and it's not hard to see why. Dating back to the late Tudor period, over the centuries it has judged some of British history's most famous crims, from the regicides of King Charles I to the Kray Twins.