Associate Justice

Supreme Court judge

An Associate Justice is a member of a court who is not the chief justice.

The term appears most often in reference to the eight Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court, who serve alongside the Chief Justice: She was nominated as an Associate Justice in 2010.

State supreme courts use similar terminology.

Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
originalismInterpreting by founding-era meaning
judgeOne who decides
dissenting opinionFormal judicial disagreement

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Opposites

judicial hierarchy

Associate JusticeChief Justice

Highest court's lead title

law clerk · judicial nominee

judicial vs. non-judicial roles

Associate Justicelitigant

Party in lawsuit

defendant · plaintiff · legislator · executive · lawmaker

formal authority vs. absence of authority

Associate Justiceprivate citizen

layperson · ordinary citizen · civilian

Family

associate, justice, associates, associated, associating, association, associations, associative, disassociate

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