Essay On Supreme Court System

Our Government System is set up of three branches; The Legislature, the Executive, and the Judicial. While they all have their fair share of issues, I am going to focus on the weakest of the three, The Judicial Branch, also known as the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is dysfunctional because our Supreme Court justices have let their own political and personal opinion influence their decision. This influence has paralyzed them from being able to do their jobs properly. To understand how the Supreme Court has become dysfunctional we must first look at what the Supreme Court was set up to do. The Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the United States. The Supreme Court Justices are appointed by the president. There are no qualification clauses for the Supreme Court and they have lifetime appointments. The Constitution of the United States says, "The [Supreme Court] shall extend to all cases, in law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Law of the United States, and Treaties made.." (Art. III, Sec. 2). The supreme court, set up by the founding fathers, was designed to Protect the Constitution and to assure it is upheld. Therefore, the Supreme Court Justices need to be set apart from political influence. If the supreme court justices are not separated from the mindsets of everyday people they will …show more content…
From the very beginning of the judicial branch, the two party system has influenced the mindsets of every U.S citizen including the supreme court justices. This Conceived notion that we have to have a two-party system is actually setting us up for more failure, It divides the nation up. The supreme court justices are supposed to be above the two party system. But because the supreme court justices are just as much human as we are they too have a political party preference. The supreme court justices are choosing their party over the Constitution of the United