Northeast Bias? Quiz - Supreme Court | Supreme Court

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1. Brett M. Kavanaugh

Answer: Born in the Northeast

President Donald J. Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. After a highly publicized nomination confirmation hearing, he took his seat on October 6, 2018. Kavanaugh was born in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 1965 and went to Yale Law School.

2. John G. Roberts Jr.

Answer: Born in the Northeast

On September 29, 2005, President George W. Bush named John Roberts Jr., the Chief Justice of the United States. He was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955. Roberts graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979.

3. Stephen Breyer

Answer: Not born in the Northeast

Breyer was born in San Francisco, California, August 15, 1938 and got his final law degree at Harvard. President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Breyer stepped down from the Supreme Court in the summer of 2022 after taking his seat on August 3, 1994.

4. Amy Coney Barrett

Answer: Not born in the Northeast

Barrett took a seat on the Supreme Court on October 27, 2020. She was appointed by President Donald J. Trump as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Amy Coney Barrett was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 28, 1972. She attended Notre Dame Law School.

5. Neil M. Gorsuch

Answer: Not born in the Northeast

Neil Gorsuch was born in Denver, Colorado, August 29, 1967. He graduated from Harvard Law School and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford. He became an Associate Supreme Court Justice on April 10, 2017. He was nominated by President Donald J. Trump.

6. Clarence Thomas

Answer: Not born in the Northeast

Thomas was born in the Pinpoint community near Savannah, Georgia on June 23, 1948. After attending the College of the Holy Cross in 1971, he graduated from Yale Law School in 1974. President Bush nominated him and he sat as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on October 23, 1991.

7. Ketanji Brown Jackson

Answer: Born in the Northeast

Ketanji Brown Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 1970. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996. Twenty five years later, President Joseph Biden appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021. A year later, Biden nominated Jackson as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 2022.

8. Elena Kagan

Answer: Born in the Northeast

Elena Kagan was born in New York, New York, on April 28, 1960. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986. President Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 10, 2010. She officially sat on the Supreme Court on August 7th that year.

9. Sonia Sotomayor

Answer: Born in the Northeast

Sonia Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009. Sotomayer attended Princeton University before graduating from Yale Law School. She was the editor of the Yale Law Journal while attending school in 1979.

10. Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Answer: Born in the Northeast

Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on April 1, 1950. In 2006, he took his seat as an Associate Supreme Court Justice. He was nominated by President George W. Bush. He attended Princeton University before graduating from Yale Law School in 1975.

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Ten different men or women have been part of the Supreme Court in the first half of the 2020s. Regardless of party affiliation, did you know six who held this prestigious office between 2020 and 2025 were born in New York, New Jersey, or Washington DC?