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Collected below are floor debates (Senate debate while in Executive Session), votes, hearing transcripts and Senate statements (statements made about the nominees outside of Executive Session) of selected Supreme Court Justices. Retrospective files of past justices will be added in the coming months.

Please note that these documents are in PDF format and some can be very large in size.

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Nominee	Nominated	Confirmed	Documents	Nominated by / Replacement for
Sonia Sotomayor	06/01/2009	08/06/2009	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	Barack Obama / David H. Souter
Samuel A. Alito	11/10/2005	01/31/2006	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	George W. Bush / Sandra Day O'Connor
John G. Roberts*	09/06/2005	09/29/2005	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	George W. Bush / William H. Rehnquist
Stephen G. Breyer	05/17/1994	07/29/1994	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements Executive Report	William J. Clinton / Harry A. Blackmun
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	06/14/1993	08/03/1993	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements Executive Report	William J. Clinton / Byron R. White
Clarence Thomas	07/08/1991	10/15/1991	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings -Part 1 -Part 2 -Part 3 -Part 4 -Part 4 (Errata) Senate Floor Statements	George H. W. Bush / Thurgood Marshall
David H. Souter	07/25/1990	10/02/1990	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	George H. W. Bush / William J. Brennan
Anthony M. Kennedy	11/30/1987	02/03/1988	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	Ronald Reagan / Lewis F. Powell
Antonin Scalia	06/24/1986	09/17/1986	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	Ronald Reagan / William H. Rehnquist
William H. Rehnquist**	06/20/1986	09/17/1986	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	Ronald Reagan / Warren E. Burger
Sandra Day O'Connor	08/19/1981	09/21/1981	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	Ronald Reagan / Potter Stewart
John Paul Stevens	11/28/1975	12/17/1975	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	Gerald R. Ford / William O. Douglas
William H. Rehnquist	10/22/1971	12/10/1971	Floor Debates Floor Vote Hearings Senate Floor Statements	Richard M. Nixon / John M. Harlan

* As Chief Justice.

** Elevated to Chief Justice

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Last Updated: 07/19/2012