Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination

The evidence obtain during the search of John Smith vehicle should not be admissible in court and a motion to suppress should be file. The Fourth Amendment protects against unlawful search and seizures applies to routine traffic stops as in this case. Officer Roberts should have had probable cause that a crime has been committed in order to search and gather evidence without a valid search warrant. Officer Roberts pull John Smith over because he thought there was an obstruction in his…

Censorship in today’s society can limit everything we say or do in our everyday lives. One of our rights in the First Amendment is the freedom of speech. There are famous court cases that have made it to the supreme court about what has been done and said in certain places. The First Amendment can also be censored in almost all of its components. Censorship in today’s society has many good factors and also many bad factors that can limit what information people are provided. The First…

rewrote the entire constitution. They defined the responsibilities of each branch of the federal government, and assumed that Congress would fill in any holes within the constitution as they arose by proposing amendments (Lessig, 2014). According to Thomas Jefferson, “No society can make a perpetual constitution” (Lessig, 2014). However, in the 228 years of the Constitution’s existence there have only been 27 amendments, the first 12 occurring within the first 15 years of its adoption,…

Imagine living in a country where you didn’t have rights. In many different areas of the world individual rights are not respected. Luckily,in the United States of America we have the bill of rights to make sure our rights are recognized and protected. To me, the most important rights are the First, Second, and Fifth Amendments. The First Amendment explains the right to freedom of speech, religion, press, petition and assembly. These rights allow us to speak up against the government or come…

small prayer for the day which the people could not tolerate. Prayer in school was our religious heritage. Social benefits were made prayer in school. The supreme court disregarded the Establishment Clause in which it stated the freedom of religion. A simple silence does not express that they are school prayer. I believe that the supreme court thought the freedom of religion was freedom from religion and any other things. Since school prayer allowed students to observe religious belief during…

Student protestors of Gallaudet University presented the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees with four demands: 1. The resignation of the newly appointed university president Elizabeth Zinser, a hearing person, and the selection of a Deaf person as the universities president. 2. The immediate resignation of Jane Basset Spilman, who was chair of the Board of Trustees. 3. The reconstitution of the Board of Trustees with at least a 51% majority made of Deaf members. 4. No repercussions to any…

Life in America is shaped by the decisions of the Supreme Court. Those tasked with deciding on the cases brought to the highest court in the land are some of the most intelligent legal minds our nation can offer. Even more so, those few men who have been given the task of guiding the court are some of history’s prominent figures. Two men in particular, Earl Warren and William Rehnquist ruled the American legal and political scene for nearly 35 years. Warren, serving from 1953-1969, presided over…

(Hynson 68). Two court cases that were key in advancing the civil rights movement and beginning the transition towards equality between blacks and whites were the cases of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson began when Homer Plessy, who was one-eighths African American, bought a railroad ticket and sat in the white car, when asked to move, he refused. Homer Plessy was arrested and found guilty in Louisiana’s U.S. District Court; this…

turning on a signal. The officers quickly pursued the Nissan. One officer got out of the car and, without a permit, searched Whren’s car. The officer found many illegal drugs hidden in the car in the passenger seat and around the car. Later on in court, there were many disagreements over whether or not what the officer did was justified, seeing as he searched the car without a search warrant. Even so, the Fourth Amendment was not breached seeing as the officer halted the car during a traffic…

banned from a school because of language, or possible racist comments, then the author and publisher lose money and publicity for their book. Although the First Amendment to the U.S Constitution doesn't have the right to read books, a lot of the Supreme Court interprets the Amendment during the 20th century have supported the freedom to read a…