Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme court justices are politicians. The most basic definition of a politician is, a person that achieves a position of policy making over an organized community. Judges, in theory, should be fair, unbiased, neutral, impartial and not based or linked to any political party or movement. However, decisions made by the Supreme Court judges have had huge political significance. While it’s not the standard in lower courts, the United States Supreme Court is forced to make political and judicial…

(North) and the Confederacy (South) over slavery and the North won. Amendment 13 abolished slavery from the United States freeing the slaves. Amendment 14 was placed in the Constitution in 1868. This amendment made Blacks United States citizens. Amendment 14 overruled the Dred Scott decision which ruled that Blacks were property not United States citizens. The only way for a Supreme Court decision to be overruled is an amendment. Amendment 15 was ratified in 1870. This Amendment…

Texas v. Johnson When the National Anthem comes on everyone stands, takes off their hats, and puts their hand over their heart to honor the United States of America. Citizens do this to respect the nation and all that have died for their freedom. There are laws that say that people in the United States have to respect the flag in many ways, but what if someone breaks those laws to exercise their freedom of speech? What laws are more important, freedom of speech or flag desecration laws? The…

Maryland dealt with the prosecution withholding exculpatory evidence from the defense, Giglio v. United States (1972) deals with the prosecution withholding information from the jurors. According to Judge (2005), the case expands the sharing of exculpatory information with defense to include any promises the prosecution made to witnesses that might put…

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 by President Ronald RJudge Robert Bork was nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 by President Ronald Reagan. He was a Senior Judicial Advisor to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and solicitor general under President Richard M. Nixon. He fired Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in what became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre”. He opposed the Supreme Court’s one…

The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. The idea behind the Bill of Rights was to insure certain freedoms and rights to the citizens of America. It put limits on what the government could do and control. Freedoms protected include freedom of religion, speech, assembly, the right to bear arms, unreasonable search and seizure of your home, the right to a speedy trial, and many more in America. In Panama City, Florida, Clarence Earl Gideon was accused of…

Exigent circumstances are considered instances when it is appropriate for officers to conduct a warrantless search outside of the scope of the Fourth Amendment search and seizure rule. The Fourth Amendment states that every person has the right to be secure in their house, papers, person and effects against unreasonable search and seizure, and no warrant issued unless probable cause is present and supported by an oath or affirmation describing the person, place or thing to be seized (Strasser,…

The United States Congress established a federal Bank of the United States through a legislative act. The federal Bank had created a branch for operation in the state of Maryland. According to Maryland laws, any bank within Maryland without a state charter will be imposed a tax by the Maryland state government, and the branch of the Bank of the United States is one of the non-chartered banks. McCullough, a cashier for the Second Bank of the United States, was operating in Maryland and issued…

that the Americans did in the 1800’s. There have been many Supreme Court cases that have left an impact on our country, but none have left the impact that the Dred Scott versus Sanford decision left. In order to understand the Dred Scott versus Sanford case one must know: the function of the Supreme Courts , who Dred Scott was, and the impact that the case left on future presidents choosing their Supreme Court Justices. The Supreme Court was founded in 1789 because of the Judiciary Act of…

Furthermore there are other methods to measure the success of a constitution such as the separation of powers. In the UK the constitutional reform act certainly tried to implement a separation of powers. The Supreme Court in the UK took over the existing role of the Law Lords as well as some powers of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and removed the functions of Speaker of the House of Lords and Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales from the office of Lord Chancellor which…