Supreme Court blog

The Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the United States. I do not know a lot of information about the Supreme Court besides having nine judges and the most powerful court. The Supreme Court gets 7,00 cases a year and only takes 100 a year. A trial to reach the Supreme Court and must go through trial courts, where the fact is established. The trial court answers the question like did the lower court properly apply the law and is the law within the boundaries of the Constitutional. When the Supreme Court started out it was not as powerful as people would think. The Supreme Court's reputation was damaged because of slaverly. Dred Scott claimed his Freedom from the act of congress and once the case went to the Supreme Court, they made the decision that the Supreme Court had no power to ban slavery.

The most important takeaway the Supreme Court provides to the American citizens is how the court draws the boundaries of government power, telling the President, Congress, and the states what is lawful and unlawful. A good way the Supreme Court makes its decision is base on history, in each case the Supreme Court, a lesson is learned on how to interpret the law, from free speech to criminal cases. The most surprising thing I have learned is how the Supreme Court takes its cases, there is a long process for the cases to get to the Supreme Court. Any case can be presented from a powerful law firm or a guy from jail. Any citizen can have their case in the supreme court as long as the Supreme judges take the case.

The Supreme Court video changed the way I think because I thought the Supreme Court makes new laws when need to but also rewrites the laws so it is applied better than how it was written before. History is the best way to interpret what is Constitutiontional and what is not. Each case goes through the Supreme Court to teach us how the law is applied and they view the laws.