Former President William Howard Taft (1909-1913) is the only President to serve on the Supreme Court. President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1921; he presided over the Court until a few months before his death in 1930.
Each Supreme Court judge is hand-picked by the President in office. That Supreme Court judge stays in office until death, at which time the current President will pick an appropriate replacement.
They must be appointed by the President, and then accepted by the Senate and House.
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In India only the President can appoint any Judge in the supreme court.
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Benjamin N. Cardozo was the Jewish US Supreme Court judge appointed by a Republican President. He was appointed by Hebert Hoover in 1932.
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President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court in 1967. That was his first judicial position.
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