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J UST ICES of the

SU PRE M E C OU R T during the time of these reports

JOHN G. ROBERTS, Jr., Chief Justice.

JOHN PAUL STEVENS, Associate Justice.

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice.1

ANTONIN SCALIA, Associate Justice.

ANTHONY M. KENNEDY, Associate Justice.

DAVID H. SOUTER, Associate Justice.

CLARENCE THOMAS, Associate Justice.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Associate Justice.

STEPHEN BREYER, Associate Justice.

SAMUEL A. ALITO, Jr., Associate Justice.2

officers of the court ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General. PAUL D. CLEMENT, Solicitor General. WILLIAM K. SUTER, Clerk. FRANK D. WAGNER, Reporter of Decisions. PAMELA TALKIN, Marshal. JUDITH A. GASKELL, Librarian. 1 Justice O’Connor announced her retirement on July 1, 2005, “effec­ tive upon the nomination and conﬁrmation of my successor.” 2 The Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of New Jersey, formerly a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was nominated by President Bush on October 31, 2005, to be an Associate Justice of this Court; the nomination was conﬁrmed by the Senate on January 31, 2006; he was commissioned and took the oaths of ofﬁce and his seat on the same date. He was presented to the Court on February 16, 2006. See post, p. vii. iii