Supreme Court of the United States

The Executive Branch The President, the Vice President, and the Cabinet comprise the Executive branch of the government. The President acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible for executing and implementing the laws written by Congress and appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet. The Vice President is also part of the Executive Branch, ready to step into the role of President should the need arise. The Cabinet and…

In the state of Virginia, black and whites may have been allowed to use the same facilities, but they were not allowed to be married together. They still had an anti-miscegenation law in place (Gold). Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, were married in 1958 in Washington D.C. Not long after they returned and were married, they were arrested for miscegenation in their home state of Virginia. The couple was charged with illegally marrying…

Many people tend to wonder the actual power of the president. Is it just a title? Or is he secretly the most powerful man; much like a dictator? Well, by going back in time to specific court cases that could have swayed either way, one can easily tell that the president has more powers than everyone thinks. Many think that issues involving wars and foreign relations are solely powers given to the President, but these powers can be tested when problems occur that are not clearly stated in his job…

The Supreme Court, as Justice Madison puts it, is the Supreme interpreter of the law, and all laws that are not constitutional must be strike down. Brandeis also thinks this way. He thinks the interpreter of the law has supervisory powers. They must be impartial and not allow a citizen or government official to break the law. If citizens break the law, then the appropriate punishment applies according to the statutes; however, if the government breaks the law, then sanctions applies to uphold…

On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court passed on its decision in the point of interest instance of Brown v. Leading group of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court's consistent choice upset arrangements of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson choice, which had took into consideration "isolated however equivalent" open offices, incorporating government funded schools in the United States. Proclaiming that "different instructive offices are intrinsically unequal," the Brown v. Board choice helped…

Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, which stated that the President cannot pass a policy without Congress giving the president any mandated options to choose from, Congress passed a joint resolution in regards to the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. Congress gave the president a list of options in regards to what he could do to either support the war or remain neutral towards the war. The options were limited to placing an embargo on United States companies from selling…

America since its existence, and this issue of race does not stop when it comes to college admission. In 2003, a case known as Grutter v. Bollinger came in front of the Supreme Court and challenged the constitutional protection or lack of on an affirmative action plan adopted by an university. Grutter deals with the role the state plays in including a minority group into a larger part of the schools student body for educational benefits; this is the basis of affirmative action. The problem some…

Espionage requires doing things in an illegal manner; however, it should not violate the First Amendment in the United States’ Bill of Rights. The First Amendment stresses the people’s right of freedom of speech. Espionage and freedom of speech were always in conflict with each other as seen in the Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States. During that case, Schenck was convicted of breaking the Espionage Act of 1917 by telling people not to enlist in the army so the American government saw…

Illinois State Trooper Daniel Gillette stopped Mr. Caballes for speeding on an interstate highway. Trooper reported the traffic stop to dispatch, at this time, a second trooper with the drug interdiction team responded to the location of the stop. K9 Trooper Craig Graham and his K9 partner arrived on location to find the offender seated in the Trooper Gillette’s car and the offenders car on the side of the roadway. While the first trooper was writing the offender a ticket, Graham walked his…

The legal and education arm of NAACP made concerted efforts in other landmark court cases, such as the Missouri ex rel Gaines V. Canada case of 1938 that saw an all-black graduate student of Lincoln University to be allowed to attend University of Missouri Law School after being denied admission on racial considerations (Tushnet, 1987). Sweat V. Painter case of 1950 was another important case where the legal and education arm of NAACP continued to press against discrimination of African…