Supreme Court of the United States

governor of Washington said "Equal justice under the law is the state's primary responsibility. And in death penalty cases, I'm not convinced equal justice is being served," the first-term Democratic governor said. "The use of the death penalty in this state is unequally applied, sometimes dependent on a budget of the county where the crime occurred." Literature Gregg v. Georgia Petitioner was charged with committing armed robbery…

principle of stare decisis is respected and that precedents carry the day when making determinations with regard to matters that are similar to others decided earlier by superior courts. This paper seeks to argue a case for and against the use of judicial review philosophy of judicial activism or judicial…

Each state of the United States of America follows one of the particular judicial selection processes. The typical approaches to the choice of the judges are: partisan and non-partisan regular elections, merit selection and gubernatorial or legislative appointment (Chertoff, 2010). In most states a mix of those approaches is applied to the judicial selection processes within their own court system. This makes every state’s judicial selection process exceptional and unique. While all of those…

Liberty’ for Americans,” (Ginsbery, 2015, pg. 29). The government created by our Founding Fathers was founded in order to protect the rights of citizens and not to fear the government. Our second amendment clearly states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” (Cornell University Law School). But how do this tie into the twenty-first century and the continuing change of the public view…

The United States Supreme Court is the uppermost federal court on the earth that offers lifetime tenure to a selected few. Justices John G. Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor are currently serving out their lifetime tenures and shaping the landscape of America with their decisions with various cases. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Chief Justice John G. Roberts born on January 25, 1955 attended Harvard College and soon Harvard Law. At Harvard, Roberts became the managing editor of…

was charged in Florida State with a felony because he ended stealing from the vending machines. He did have a criminal back ground and was before in and out of prison but it wasn’t anything big he every committed. At trial, he appeared in court without an attorney because he couldn’t afford on .He requested that the court may appoint one for him at trial but the court judge had denied his request. It was said that the judge denied him the request because of the Florida’s state law that an…

For many years, gay marriage has been seen as something that is taboo or immoral, but as United States society has come to be more accepting, gay marriage has become a regular occurrence. On June 26, 2015, American society changed forever when the ruling in favor of the plaintiff in the Obergefell v. Hodges case legalized homosexual marriage in the United States. Many people have opposed the marriage of two men or two women for religious purposes. However, many people also support said marriage,…

Engel vs. Vitale court case, causing an incensed populace of America. The Engel vs. Vitale case was a landmark in U.S Supreme Court cases, which caused a significant disturbance in America that ruled school-sponsored prayers to be in violation of one of the Amendments. The Supreme Court is known as the highest federal court in the United States, which also means that the Engel vs. Vitale case has been heard at least one other time before reaching the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court case,…

debated in court cases and they need to have answers but they will forever be questioned. So far all court cases have been going towards gay marriage. Obergefell v. Hodges. A landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling meant that all fifty states must…

Case: Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S. 366 (2003). Court: United State Supreme Court Dates: Argued November 3, 2003—Decided December 15, 2003 Parties: Maryland / Appellants Pringle / Appellee Procedural History: Pringle, along with three other men, were arrested for possession of drugs and large sums of money but Pringle took full guilt. Pringle first filed a motion with the trial court to suppress his confession with claims that his arrest was illegal because the officer did not…