Do Supreme Court Judges have to be approved by Congress?

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45automan

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Can the next president just appoint them,or what? I think I read that they have to have congressional approval. Is this true?
45automan
 
By both Congress and the Senate, so next time someone tells you that they think Bush is going to just throw 4 anti abortion Justices up there, without anyone else able to do anything, tell them to get a clue.

Spark

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Yep, any SC appointee that Bush proposes is going to get "Borked." Unless it's someone like Souter. With the GOP margins so thin, we may have to wait until 2002 to get enough conservatives in to confirm a truly conservative justice. :(

Dick
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All Presidential appointments--cabinet secretaries, federal judges of any court (including the Supreme Court), and others--must be confirmed by the Senate:

{The President} shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Article II, Section 2; The Constitution of the United States
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