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1 day ago · President George Washington would appoint William Cushing as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court where he served from 1789 – 1810. “The Quock Walker cases . . . stand not only as a monument in the history of freedom because they signaled the end of slavery in Massachusetts, but also as a milestone in constitutional history,” according to - Hon. Peter W. Agnes, Jr., Massachusetts ...
3 days ago · July 2, 2024, 3:57 PM ET (AP) Big wins for Trump and sharp blows to regulations mark momentous Supreme Court term. Select decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. The table provides a list of select decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.
4 days ago · The Court at that time consisted of Chief Justice Marshall and Associate Justices William Cushing, William Paterson, Samuel Chase, Bushrod Washington, and Alfred Moore, each of whom had been appointed by President Washington or President Adams.
2 days ago · He was sworn into office by Associate Justice William Cushing on March 4, 1793, in the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia. Afterwards, Washington gave a brief address before immediately retiring to the President's House.
4 days ago · The Pennsylvania Constitution, prefaced by a Preamble and Declaration of Rights, was framed by a specially elected convention that met from mid-July to the end of September 1776.
4 days ago · In Jefferson’s notes on the debate in Congress over the Declaration, he gives a short account of how his draft of the Declaration was amended, afterwards recopying that first draft to show what he originally proposed.
3 days ago · Under a law signed in 2022, Monday is a state holiday marking a 1783 decision in Walker’s case by Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice William Cushing who declared that slavery had been ...
