In class we were able to actively take notes and partake in watching a video about the supreme court system. I will now be sharing what I learned in the video. The government has three different branches that are government following to guarantee that no one branch has too much power.
The three branches are the legislative, executive and judicial branches. The supreme court falls under the judicial body, and they are a co-equal branch of this government. It is also the most powerful form of the judicial body that not only upholds the rule of law but deals with human dilemmas. With the faith of the citizens of the United States they interpret the constitution in cases.
They make sure that every court case gets the fourteenth amendment, due process. Due process ensures that every case has a fair and equal judgment. In cases the judges shake hands before to show respect. They are educated on case before case and have to keep an open mind during discussion of the cases. They hear cases in public and lawyers have thirty minutes to argue their cases. There have been one hundred supreme justices in all time that are all appointed by the president, in total there are nine supreme jurors at a time.
If someone thinks they did not have a fair trial in a lower level court they can send a petition to the supreme court to review their case. This a long and expensive process, however, everyone gets the same attention for petitioning the court. Court releases decisions at the end of the session in June and the press gets copies of decisions and information of the case. The press then gives the information to the public so they can get to know and see why they came to that animus opinion.
This is some of the viable information that I learned when watching this video, to help better educate myself on the Judicial system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWRoXYRsaeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8qSuWxcG8
