Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

What is Government? Government is defined as “the group of people who control and make decisions for a country, state, etc. (Merriam Webster, 2016). There are six types of government styles. The style is defined by the style of control the government maintains and the system of beliefs that the governed body holds. Sample governments include republic, democracy, theocracy, dictatorship, fascism and monarchy. It all depends on the country’s system of beliefs. A Republic government is in effect…

intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the supreme court. Antonin Gregory Scalia was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, as the first Italian American to become a member of the supreme court. On Sunday, February 13, 2016, the Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, was announced dead; “He was having health issues...He died of natural causes.”i That day a core member of the…

Brandeis Louis D. Brandeis - Supreme Court Justice 1916 - 1939 There is a special place for those in our society who choose to act against the law: the courthouse. There are several different types of courts, each specializing in an area of offense. Some courts are ranked higher than others. For example, if the defendant is not satisfied with the verdict of the district court, it can be appealed to the appellate court. If one wishes to continue appealing to higher courts they may find…

pursuit of happiness. Well unfortunately the U.S. wasn't always like this. For instance, the Dred Scott VS Sanford supreme court case and the Plessy VS Ferguson case. These cases were important in making this country free for all races as it is now. Without such cases to sort out right/wrongdoings who would know where we would be today. In 1846, Dred Scott, a slave, sued in a Missouri court for his freedom from his master. Scott argued that…

The Supreme Court is that of a Chief Justice of the United States and a set number of Associate Judges, fixed by congress and appointed by the President. The Supreme Court has specific guidelines on how many cases they are to hear in a set time but, they have discretion on which cases they choose to hear out in court. Many cases they hear deal with questions, or conflicts, with the interpretation of the constitution, such as the cases: Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, Beauharnais v. Illinois, and…

In the United States, the right to privacy is a legal argument used in cases involving public and private actions that are deemed a threat to the privacy of an individual. The origin of the right to privacy argument is often attributed to the U.S. constitution specifically the fourth amendment. According to the constitution scholar Peter Irons ( 2006) in addition to the fourth amendment, the first, third, fifth and ninth amendments included specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights that…

Federal Court system is primarily composed of three high power jurisdictions that operate much differently than that of the state courts. Federal Courts consist of federal district courts, United States courts of appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States; however, these courts have limitations in cases that solely focus on the Constitution and federal law. Federal district courts are considered general trial courts that consist of over six hundred and seventy-five district court judges…

Conor Article observations 1.I observed that in 1991 Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court, decided to retire. 2. I observed that Thurgood Marshall while, and before he was in the Supreme Court Marshall was a leader who fought for Civil Rights. 3.I observed that Thurgood Marshall, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, by President Lyndon Johnson. 4.I observed that Marshall lead the NACCP's in the segregation case Brown vs.…

international powers, and veto laws. The president is elected by the electoral college – which is a combination of the two senators from each state plus the number of representatives in each state, which is based on population – after having been cleared of the three requirements in the Constitution; being 35+ years of age, having been a resident of the United States for at least fourteen years, and you must be a natural-born…

for the landmark Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, which determined that same-sex marriages were to be considered legal in all fifty states (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015). Those who are in the LGBT community were overjoyed to finally have the long awaited marriage rights that had been granted to heterosexual couples for hundreds of years (Pearson, Sanchez, & Martinez, 2015). The Supreme Court decision is representative of the changes that have occurred in the United States in regard to…