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Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan are current Supreme Court justices. They are women. Sandra Day O'Connor is a former Supreme Court justice. She is also a woman. There are no constitutional qualifications for Supreme Court Justices. No age requirement, education requirement, or even a citizenship requirement. Never mind a protected class.
There are no explicit requirements in the U.S. Constitution for a person to be nominated to become a Supreme Court justice. No age, education, job experience, or citizenship rules exist. In fact, according to the Constitution, a Supreme Court justice does not need to even have a law degree.
The only requirement to be on the Ohio Supreme Court is that a person cannot be over 70 years old. A candidate does not have to be a judge or even a lawyer to be on the Ohio Supreme Court.
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The only requirement to be on the Ohio Supreme Court is that a person cannot be over 70 years old. A candidate does not have to be a judge or even a lawyer to be on the Ohio Supreme Court.
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In the 1874 Supreme Court case Minor v. Happersett, the Court ruled that citizenship did not automatically confer the right to vote, affirming that voting rights were not inherent in citizenship status. The decision reinforced the notion that states had the authority to set voter qualifications.
No, the US Supreme Court is not currently considering any cases questioning Barack Obama's US citizenship. These claims have been thoroughly debunked and rejected by multiple courts in the past.
No. Although all members of the current US Supreme Court have served on the US Court of Appeals, there is no requirement that they do so, let alone a specification about the number of years.
While there is no specific citizenship requirement in the United States Constitution for a federal judge or Supreme Court Justice, Article VI of the Constitution does require judges and justices to be "bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution." Since it is highly unlikely that someone could be a foreign national and still swear to that oath or affirmation, it is highly unlikely that a non-citizen could become a Supreme Court Justice.