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in the United States really have the right to choose what…

legal in United States and nationwide? Should homosexuals have equal rights? Will same-sex marriage have negative impacts to our future? All these controversial debates on same sex marriage plays a big role where new era is approaching and society start to change. According to the development in recent years, same-sex marriage is now legal in twenty-two countries worldwide. The United States Supreme Court has passed the law on June 26, 2015 to legalize same-sex marriage to all states in U.S.…

Warren court was a time full of life changing events, whether they were good or bad they affected everyone. Changes were being made quite frequently to civil rights, judicial and federal powers. The Warren court was known for several different things such as: ending racial segregation, putting a stop to prayer in public schools, making the right to privacy very clear through the constitution, and much, much more. Without the Warren court, there is no say on how the United States would be right…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Author and professor of Law at Harvard, writer Noah Feldman, focuses on the Supreme Court of FDR in his book Scorpions, particularly the stories of the four most influential and revolutionary justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson. Feldman seeks to analyze what influenced each justices’ decisions in the court, and follows their evolution on the bench. Overall, Feldman…

William James "Bill" O 'Reilly, an American television host, author, syndicated columnist, and political commentator once professed “There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.” In our every changing society, where increased rights for same-sex couples, equal pay for women, and gun laws have altered our society since our…

In the Merit Plan, which most states use, states claim to remove politics from the judiciary by replacing it with merit. In the process a commission of ten people nominate usually three people that the governor will pick from to appoint. The appointed judge then has to face a retention election in the next general election and another election at the end of their term, which only needs a majority vote. While claiming to take politics out of elections, the commission is more likely to nominate…

Biography Sonia Sotomayor was appointed a Supreme Court justice in 2009 and became the first woman of Latin origin at the highest level of judicial hierarchy in the United States. Sonia Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. Her parents were both born in Puerto Rico but moved to New York during World War II (Biography 2016). In Bronx, Sonia was raised in poor catholic Puerto Rican community and was speaking mostly Spanish (Lewis 2016). At age seven, she was diagnosed with…

After watching the movie Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, many of the events/situation that occurred between the Supreme Court Justices and law clerks surprised me. First, I was fascinated by Justice Harlan’s law clerk, Kevin Connolly’s tenacity and idealistic attitude during the process of rejecting and accepting the case, Clay v. the United States. For instance, Connolly’s bravery was demonstrated when he tried to dismiss his responsibility to write the brief directed by Justice Harlan due to…

rulings of this case was 7-2 in favor of Roe, the court states that it was unconstitutional because it violated the 14th Amendment for Texas’ state abortion laws to only allow forth abortions only when the mother’s life is at stake(Roe v. Wade). The court ruled that women have the right of privacy when it came to deciding whether they should bear children. The court also decided that the woman’s health is in the interest of the state, that the woman can decide up to the second…

Thesis Statement~ Madalyn Murray O'hair's 1963 Supreme Court case victory removing religion from the public school system has had a directly observable effect on the breakdown of necessary teachings of ethics, morals and values at a very impressionable development period, which is leading to increased acts of juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, violence and disrespect for authority. The void created from the removal of religious teachings in public schools has exploded into…