Out of Order by Sandra Day O'Connor

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Retail, Nonfiction, Legal, Supreme Court
ISBN: 9780812993936
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Swearing-in ceremony for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia, which took place in the East Room of the White House on September 26, 1986. (Photograph Credit 8.3)

Not to be outdone, Justice David Souter was the first to take an oath on national television. On October 8, 1990, President George H. W. Bush looked on at the White House as Chief Justice Rehnquist administered Justice Souter’s Constitutional Oath before the cameras.

Before taking his seat at the center of the Court’s bench for the first time, the Court’s current Chief Justice, John G. Roberts Jr., took part in a series of oath-taking ceremonies. On September 29, 2005, Justice Stevens administered the Judicial Oath to the new Chief in a private, intimate ceremony in the diplomatic reception room at the White House, attended by the Chief’s family and other members of the Supreme Court. Later that day, Justice Stevens administered the Constitutional Oath to the Chief Justice in a public ceremony at the White House that was attended by President George W. Bush and broadcast worldwide on live television. Other members of the Supreme Court, their spouses, and many dignitaries also attended this ceremony. And Chief Justice Roberts was still not finished swearing oaths when he left the White House. A week later, he was again sworn in, this time in a private investiture ceremony for the Chief Justice in the courtroom, one hour before the Court’s Term began on the first Monday in October 2005.

The two newest Justices, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan, did not take either of their oaths at the White House. Both took their Constitutional Oath in the Justices’ Conference Room at the Supreme Court, in front of family, friends, and other Justices, and then their Judicial Oath in one of the Supreme Court conference rooms, before a small gathering of family and friends. Both of their Judicial Oath ceremonies were broadcast live on television.18 Each later retook the Judicial Oath in a formal investiture ceremony in the Supreme Court’s courtroom with President Barack Obama in attendance.19 No photographs or videos are permitted in the Court courtroom, so there are no photos of the formal investiture ceremonies. The iconic photos of new Justices usually come from the moments after the ceremony when the Chief Justice and the new Justice walk down the grand white marble steps in front of the Court to greet reporters gathered on the Supreme Court plaza. Only the Justices know what they and the Chief Justice discuss while they walk down the steps to the flash of hundreds of cameras.

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