Supreme Court of the United States

McCulloch vs. Maryland is the court case that brought attention to expansion of federal power to the United States of America. The two main questions on why this case was brought to the Supreme court were…Did Congress have the power to establish the Second Bank of the United States of America? Did Maryland have the power to tax the bank? This case confirmed that Congress did have the power to establish the Bank, and Maryland did not have the power to tax the Bank. The Supreme Court ruled…

segregation in the California school districts toward children of Mexican descent. The Brown case brought attention to the Courts that segregated school facilities are not equal and in fact has a detrimental affect in Negro children. Below I will discuss the two cases and list the four factors. Westminster was a federal court case that…

24, 1803, one mere Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison, changed the course of American history. From this ruling, the Supreme Court gained judicial review: the authority to give their opinions on the constitutionality of laws. This positively impacted America because it prohibited the government from abusing the Constitution. However, over the years, judicial review has spiraled into judicial supremacy and taken power away from the states. It has also led to the Supreme Court making laws,…

On analysis of the case it based on the Supreme Court scrutinizing congressional legislation in determining whether it is passed constitutional muster with resulting controversies involving the commerce clause of the United States constitution which played a role in identifying congress commerce scope. The main starting point for the commerce clause jurisprudence is the United States constitution which stated that the congress had power and authority to regulate commerce in1824. In 1988, the…

In January of 1973 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roe in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, the case of a single pregnant woman who challenged the constitutionality of the state of Texas’s criminal abortion laws. Through examination of evidence and input that led to this outcome, we seek to determine why the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roe. Though the Supreme Court cited precedent and unconstitutionality in order to justify Roe’s victory in the case, non-institutional actors such as public…

Georgia involved the case of Troy Gregg versus the state of Georgia. The case was decided by the United States Supreme Court in July of 1976 in which involved the sentencing of the death penalty. Troy Leon Gregg, was arrested in 1973 due to armed robbery and murder convictions, it was believed that Gregg was involved in the robbery and murder of two men in Georgia. The convicted felon Troy Gregg and his companion Floyd Allen were hitchhiking in the state of Florida when they were picked up by…

The Supreme Court is a vital piece of the United States’ government. From making court case decisions to checking the powers of the Judicial and Executive Branches, these justices are important in a way that not many others are. Their interpretation of the Constitution is considered the supreme law of the United States. Every action of the Supreme Court will have an everlasting impression on our country, so it is important that we, as U.S. citizens, are aware of the importance of our future…

Legislative Branch discusses and votes on written laws in congress. The Executive Branch of government oversees making sure laws in the United States are obeyed. The president of the United States is the head of the Executive Branch and accompanied by the Vice president, and the Cabinet. The third branch is the Judicial Branch, the Judicial branch is made up of the Supreme Court and the Federal Judicial Center. The duty of the Judicial Branch is to interpret the constitution. One of the reasons…

Justice Antonin Scalia in February of this year, the US Supreme Court has still been operating with eight justices instead of appointing a ninth. The reason for this being a lack of response from the Senate to President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. This failure to acknowledge the President’s motion has sparked outrage across the country, bringing rise to the Constitutional provisions associated with the appointment of Supreme Court Justices. Several issues stemming from the Senate's’…

In the case of Tinker V. Des Moines, it shows how the supreme court did not want students to be allowed to publicly express themselves or their opinions. Also how the teachers should have freedom of speech in school or out of school. The argument that is stronger for me is for the students and the teachers to be allowed to have freedom of speech and should always be protected. To begin with, at the public school in Tinker V. Des Moines, the students and the teachers organized a small protest…