DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exhibitions -- Notes:
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From the Collection: Presidential Campaign Buttons:
To date, only one person has served both as President on the the Su... (truncated, click for full description)
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Administering the Presidential Oath:
At the request of the President-elect, a member of the Supreme Court has administe... (truncated, click for full description)
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Sandra Day O'Connor: First Woman on the Supreme Court:

Growing Up on the Lazy B:
Sandra Day O'Connor's sense of inde... (truncated, click for full description)
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Hitting the Glass Ceiling:
Although graduating near the top of her class in 1952, no law firm in California was willing... (truncated, click for full description)
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Gavel used by Judge O'Connor while serving on the Arizona Court of Appeals.
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"Let's play Supreme Court.  You be the old guys and I'll be Sandra Day O'Connor."
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Her Honor:
Already a trailblazer having served in the three branches of state government, O'Connor was about to make an... (truncated, click for full description)
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Accomplishments Off the Court:
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court January 31, 2006, but in many... (truncated, click for full description)
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"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
  -- Marbury v Madison, 1... (truncated, click for full description)
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Marbury v Madison, 1803
Widely recognized as one of the most significant in this history of the Supreme Court, this cas... (truncated, click for full description)
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McCullough v Maryland, 1819:
In the early decades of the American republic, the lack of a single national currency was ... (truncated, click for full description)
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Cohens v Virginia, 1821:
The issue of "states' rights" often dominated political discussions in the early years of the ... (truncated, click for full description)
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On July 7, 1835, the day after John Marshall died, the Bar of Philadelphia agreed to commission a statue to be placed in... (truncated, click for full description)
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On Friday, April 22, 1949, New York attorney Harris B. Steinberg arrived at the Supreme Court Building as co-counsel in ... (truncated, click for full description)
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