Chief Justice of the United States

House. This seemed like Nixon's aides were trying to spy on the Democrats. However President Nixon said he didn't know anything about the Watergate break-in. Law enforcement agents continued to investigate the case, which led them back to Nixon’s chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman in 1973. Later that year a white house aid revealed that Nixon secretly taped conversations in his office. The Senate committee that was investigating the Watergate scandal wanted to hear these recorded tapes. However,…

In September of 2012, Hobby Lobby filed a suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma over the federal mandate to provide four specific potentially life-terminating drugs and devices. In November of 2012, the U.S. district court for the Western District of Oklahoma denies Hobby…

President Truman argued that the presidency had the power to act in cases of national emergency. President Truman also argued that the presidency has certain powers that are given by the Constitution. I think that the power of the commander in chief should be given the ability to take actions that were necessary to organized a war. Even though, the Supreme Court rejected his explanation, the president needed either a grant of power in the Constitution or a grant of power from Congress in…

changed. The first agency created to keep the order in the land was the sheriff’s, and they have still countywide jurisdiction. The law enforcement executive chief position is obtained by vote, to qualify for the position is only required to have minimum age and no felony convictions. He/She is the general attorney of the state. Then the chief appoints officers to help carry the responsibilities that comes with the position. This is done by a civil service selection, meaning officers are tested…

the United States, especially in the South, was in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, whites and all others had separated everything from each other that you can think of basically. Some examples include: restaurants, bathrooms, drinking fountains, and especially schools. Separation was still legal in most southern states so laws allowed places to practice these laws and rules and get away with it. But the Fourteenth Amendment granted equal rights, but these…

powers for our government today. Chief Justice John Marshall developed many ways for ruling…

in England; the criminal justice system was very small at the time, there were only four officials. The Sheriff was the agent of the king and his job was to maintain law and order in the county (Pearson 4). There was the constable whose job was to collect taxes and took orders from Justice of the Peace to make arrest with warrants. There was also the coroner their job and responsibility was to determine the cause and death of a crime…

were brought forth to the United States Supreme Court for violating the Clean Water Act. Rapanos backfilled three wetlands he owned without a permit. Environmental law became extremely important in this case because due to common law, there were a couple of different interpretations of this situation. Army Corps of Engineers and Riverside Bayview Homes were two different cases that held different precedents regarding what was considered the waters of the United States, which in turn, caused…

President and CHief Executive, John f. kennedy, in his national speech,”to the moon”, promotes the notion of America to obtain the title of ‘the first country to reach the lunar surface’. kennedy’s purpose is to persuade the citizens of the United States to back the vision of lunar exploration. He adopts an influential tone in order to persuade citizens that the united states should conduct the first step taken on the moon. as America engages in the space race, during the cold war, the…

of American politics. As the Native Americans were beginning to get pushed toward extinction the land west of the Mississippi was all in the hands of white Americans with the concept of manifest destiny in mind. As a result of the idea that the United States was meant to expand to the Pacific more and more land became available to plantation owners. As settlers moved farther and farther west the issue of race became important as the Mexican government, who controlled Texas at the time, had…