Midnight Judges

Examples of Midnight Judges in the following topics:

• The Last Days of the Federal Presidency: The Midnight Judges

  • Chief Justice Marshall's decision about "midnight judges" gave the Court authority to declare the constitutionality of congressional and presidential acts.
  • As his term was expiring, Adams filled several vacancies in the federal courts with Federalist judges, who could be depended upon to protect Federalist legislation from the ascending Democratic-Republicans.
  • This appointment of the so-called "midnight judges" to the Supreme Court angered Democratic-Republicans, and Jefferson refused to allow the midnight judges (including William Marbury) to take office .
  • Madison, Justice Marshall defined the Court's judicial power as the authority to judge the actions of the other two federal branches of government—claiming that judicial review was a logical and implicit principle established in the Constitution.
  • William Marbury (1762–1835) was one of the "midnight judges" appointed by United States President John Adams the day before he left office.

• Marbury v. Madison

  • Marbury was one of the "midnight judges" appointed by Adams after he'd lost the election of 1800, but prior to the actual inauguration of Thomas Jefferson.

• Judicial Review and Marbury v. Madison

  • This Act modified the Judiciary Act of 1789 by establishing ten new district courts, expanding the number of circuit courts from three to six, and adding additional judges to each circuit (giving the president the authority to appoint federal judges and justices of the peace).
  • On March 3, just before the end of his term, Adams took advantage of the newly modified Judiciary Act by appointing 16 Federalist circuit judges and 42 Federalist justices.
  • The appointees, infamously known as the "Midnight Judges," included William Marbury.

• The Marshall Court

  • With the Federalists about to lose the executive and legislative branches to Democratic-Republicans, President Adams and the lame-duck Congress passed what came to be known as the "Midnight Judges Act."

• The Expansion of the Federal Government

  • Marbury was one of the "midnight judges" appointed by Adams after he'd lost the election of 1800, but prior to the actual inauguration of Thomas Jefferson.

• Battles in the Courts and Congress

  • Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens.
  • Reagan appointed 83 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals and 290 judges to the United States district courts.
  • In some cases, the nominations were not processed by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee before Reagan's presidency ended, while in other cases, nominees were rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee or even blocked by unfriendly members of the Republican Party.Both his Supreme Court nominations and his lower court appointments were in line with Reagan's expressed philosophy that judges should interpret law as enacted and not "legislate from the bench".

• Crisis in Berlin

  • At midnight the army, police, and units of the East German Army began to close the border, and by morning on Sunday August 13, 1961 the border to West Berlin had been shut.

• The Labor Wars

  • Sometimes whole families worked from sun up to midnight.

• Revolutionary Women

  • President-elect Obama appeared just before midnight Eastern Time on November 5 in Grant Park, Chicago, in front of a crowd of 250,000 people to deliver his victory speech.

• Lexington and Concord