Supreme Court of the United States

The United States of America has been rocked to its core by the gay rights movement in the past decade especially. Many aspects of gay rights have come into conflict with long-existing aspects of America’s oldest laws. One such case is the conflict arising when individuals running private businesses refuse service to same-sex marriage couples, domestic partnership gays, or civil union gays based on the owners’ personal beliefs. These individuals seek shelter under the rights granted to them by…

Campaign Finance and the Supreme Court In 1974 Congress passed (and then President Ford signed) a set of Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. These amendments included prohibiting individuals from donating over a specific amount of money ($1000) to any one campaign, and limited the total contributions to $25,000 for all federal campaigns combined. The amendments also included limiting the amount of money that a candidate could contribute and spend on their own campaign and…

normally think of this as being okay. And yet this case has been brought to the Supreme Court of America. T.L.O. may have had illegal items in her possession, but the search conducted by the school was unlawful, unreasonable, and violated two Amendments in the Constitution of the United States of America. T.L.O. suffered many charges pressed against her in the lower level courts, so she has now been brought to The Supreme Court’s attention. T.L.O. was first discovered smoking in a school…

would be definitive for the individual states to know what they could and could not do, and what powers were specifically controlled at the federal level; which was also a hot topic during that time. Although it seems to be the most powerful branch of our government, the law making branch, it only holds certain powers for instance,…

freedom of speech, religion and media. The United States of America is a good example to demonstrate the States ' right and the Individual liberty. Each individual State is granted the power to establish and amend policies and laws within its borders and this influences the lifestyle of all the residents and visitors in that State. However, the individual rights are supported by the amendment that grants individuals constitutional rights inalienable by any state laws. But, as history…

has been a concurring question, in which the burden has weighed heavy the shoulders of many citizens. Should Supreme Court judges be elected or appointed? In the process of this debate, a main concern of the overall argument shadows the question that if today’s method of selection is constitutional and publicly acceptable. In order to keep the public content and still have a reliable court system, there are many factors that are taken into place, which is also one of the reasons why the answer…

be 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.…

proponents also state that the addition of under god is constitutional, as the constitution does state that “ congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” and the pledge is only recognizing our country under god not for one and it does not promote a particular religion. But let me give you some history on this controversy. Now on June 14, 1954, (Flag day), the use of,“ under god,” was signed into law by President Eisenhower. When under god was added, the United States…

When cases are reviewed by the Supreme Court they only examine cases that constitute a constitutional issue in society. The authors Corbin and John try to examine the constitutionality of employment and salary discrimination in the workforce. The goal of this study was to analyze court cases in relationship with the United States Constitution. There were two crucial Supreme Court cases that concerned these issues known as Young V. United Parcel Service, Inc. and Blackman V. Florida…

In 2010, a court case was brought forth to the Supreme Court, Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission. The case dealt with corporations and unions spending on political ads and other political tools, in order to attempt to elect or defeat individual potential politicians (Dunbar). The Supreme Court ultimately came to a 5-4 decision in favor of Citizens United (Dunbar). This ruling basically gave the go-ahead to giant unions and corporations to fund, whichever politician will benefit…