“Judicial review is the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional.” Judicial review allows the court system this power helps prevent government officials from using the Constitution to illegally use their position in making laws and regulations in the U.S. Main court case that brought up judicial review was Marbury v. Madison, and it is written by Chief justice John Marshall. After the 1800 election when Thomas Jefferson won, John Adams, the president, proceed to fill the judicial branch with members of his own party which is known as the Federalists. But on the other hand, Jefferson’s party of the Republicans repealed the Judiciary Act of 1800, which caused new position
