Capitol Hill and the White House have their own institutionalized pageantry (think the State of the Union address), but when Dale Bosley, the marshal of the Supreme Court, came into the chamber on Friday to declare, "God save the United States and this honorable court, " it was hard not to feel a little bit moved.

CNN: May It Please The Court

An unabashed liberal in both the philosophical and American political senses of the word his behaviour on the bench would be that of an extreme activist who would seek to turn the Supreme Court into little more than a third legislative chamber.

ECONOMIST: The politics of justice

The Salvadorian Constitutional Chamber is one of the five chambers of the Supreme Court.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Five justices compose the chamber and its president is also the president of the Supreme Court and the entire judicial branch.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

On May 27, 1935 afterward known as Black Monday the Supreme Court met, for very nearly the last time, in the Old Senate Chamber.

NEWYORKER: Benched

It began when the Constitutional Chamber of the country declared as unconstitutional all the appointments of Supreme Court judges made in 2006 and 2012.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

It did likewise in a September 9 Supreme Court brief filed in a case that challenges a separate Arizona immigration statute, Chamber of Commerce v.

FORBES: DOJ Blowing In Political Wind On Federal Preemption

Even if Democrats sweep Congress and the White House in November, the chamber and other business groups appear to have an ally in the Supreme Court.

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