Supreme Court of the United States

eligible citizens within 60 days of advice and consent. It is the duty of these citizens to decide if a Supreme Court nominee is apt for the court. Section 2. Supreme Court Justices will be subject to physical and psychological exams every two years. These exams will allow medical and psychological professionals to determine if each justice is in the right mindset and health to serve the Court. Special examinations may be required in the event that a Justice appears to have a decline in mental…

there is an ongoing dispute over what compromises the proper amount of judicial power. The lack of agreement concerning policymaking power of courts is reflected in the debate over judicial activism versus judicial restraint. In general, these two theories represent the conflicting approaches taken by judges in their task of interpretation. Thus, the Court may choose to play an active or passive role in politics by either changing or upholding public policy. First, Judicial Activism is the…

In 2014, President Obama announced broad executive action to change the way the United States deals with illegal immigrants.. The action contained various clauses, but the most controversial were the ones involving the deferment of deportation for an estimated 4 million illegal immigrants. Responses to this executive action varied, with some in favor, and others vehemently opposed. This action raises both moral and legal questions regarding the responsibilities of the president and the limits of…

Federal Government. In other words, political authority is distributed between the national government (also known as federal or central government) and the state government (or political subunits). Additionally, power is divided between the three branches of the national government, which are the Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court. Undoubtedly, such separation of powers is the key to maintain a system of check and balances, in order to avoid abuse of authority. Certainly, this…

Kings Men, given that the courts has to be appointed by the governors in consultation with the British government, back home in London. A lot of people in America were scared of the courts. There was a point when America had a dispute with great Brittan, where the Massachusetts legislator voted to close the courts in Boston because they didn’t want legal documents baring those stamps from the Stamp Act. As john Addams goes home, he meets a farmer who tells him that the courts are closed and…

clothing Coolidge was wearing during the days the victim Mason was missing. The police provided all the evidence to the state attorney general in order to get a warrant to arrest Coolidge at his home, in which the state attorney agreed to do so (“Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443 (1971),” n.d.). The police arrived at the house days later with…

In the court case United States v. Windsor, problems provoked regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The DOMA was a United States federal law that prohibited homosexual marriage while defining a marriage as a relationship between a male and a female. This act was soon ruled unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the 5th amendment. Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer were happily married in Ontario, Canada (2007) until Thea Spyer died in 2009, leaving behind all their property for Edith…

The 2016 Campaign and the Supreme Court Niki Seemann GOVT 2301 Federal Government Professor: Michael Enders The 2016 Campaign and the Supreme Court The 2016 Presidential Election has consisted of a high contrast between the Democratic and Republican parties. The Trump campaign highly appeals to the voters who are apprehensive of the country’s evolution over recent years (Decker, 2016). The Clinton campaign appeals to a vast array of minorities (Decker, 2016). In…

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…

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…