Blog Post #2: The Supreme Court

Blog Post #2: The Supreme Court

Throughout my years in school, I remember discussing the different branches of the US government. As I know the Supreme Court is the highest court in the country, and is the last resort for many looking for justice, I was interested to understand exactly how Supreme Court judges rule cases out. 

The most important take away from this video is that the Supreme Court plays an essential role in ensuring that each branch of government recognizes the limits of its own power. After viewing the video, I learned a lot of new information regarding the Supreme Court. I found in interesting that daily, the Supreme Court gets around 100 cases, and yearly about 7000 cases. The Supreme Court receives a majority of it's cases through written arguments that attempt to persuade this court that a lower court ruling was incorrect, the Supreme Court accepts very few of the arguments for full consideration, only about 100 per year. 

I learned that the Supreme Court interprets a 200 year old constitution when going through each case.  This video changed my perspective of the Supreme Court as it was noted that each individual Supreme Court Justice separately goes through each case, with the assistance of a small staff of law clerks and secretaries. Prior to this video I was unaware of who could submit cases to the Supreme Court, and I found it interesting that any US citizen has the ability to submit a petition to the Supreme Court. I had no idea that each individual judge is appointed by the President, and oftentimes, serve much longer terms, affecting countless generations of US citizens. 

After viewing this video, I learned a lot of valuable information regarding the Supreme Court and the complex process that goes into the jurisdiction of the cases that are submitted.