{"id":9044,"date":"2017-07-07T01:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2017-07-07T01:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:01:35","slug":"the-judicial-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9044","title":{"rendered":"The Judicial Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often see pictures of judges or justices being sworn-in; but, we rarely have a chance to observe the words of the judicial oath. \u00a0Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. \u00a7453:<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<blockquote><p>Each justice or judge of the United States shall take the following oath or affirmation before performing the duties of his office: \u201cI, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ___ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sourceCredit\">(June 25, 1948, ch. 646,\u00a0<a title=\"62 Stat. 907\" href=\"http:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/statviewer.htm?volume=62&amp;page=907\">62 Stat. 907<\/a>;\u00a0<a title=\"Pub. L. 101\u2013650, title IV\" href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/L?d101:.\/list\/bd\/d101pl.lst:650(Public_Laws)\">Pub. L. 101\u2013650, title IV<\/a>, \u00a7\u202f404,\u00a0<span class=\"date\">Dec. 1, 1990<\/span>,\u00a0<a title=\"104 Stat. 5124\" href=\"http:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/statviewer.htm?volume=104&amp;page=5124\">104 Stat. 5124<\/a>.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"sourceCredit\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often see pictures of judges or justices being sworn-in; but, we rarely have a chance to observe the words of the judicial oath. \u00a0Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. \u00a7453: Each justice or judge of the United States shall take the following oath or affirmation before performing the duties of his office: \u201cI, ___ ___, do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9045,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}