SCOTUS History

 Blog post #2

                

                             Knowledge and history of the Supreme Court

        

 
The Supreme Court of the United States is the head of the judicial branch of government and was established by the U.S. Constitution. It is also the highest federal court in the country. The court currently has nine members on board that include Chief Justice John Roberts with associate justice's Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas. All nine of these very intelligent, hard-working people have a lot on there plates in this position. While serving on this job, "the court.... has the power to check the actions of the other two branches of Government - the executive branch of the President and the legislative branch of Congress."

While reading on the history and today's news on the Supreme Court from a post created by the History channel on History.com, they had shared much information that I have never known about the Supreme Court. When they had their first meeting on February 2, 1790, the court only had six justices working. It was not also until there second term that they had received a case and handed down their first decision. Something surprising to me that I also did not know is that there are about 100 new cases every week and 7,000 of those cases every year go to the court. 

The most important takeaway in my opinion is how much power the members of the Supreme Court really has over the United States. Their impact to not only the United States, but the world on their decisions everyday is insane to me. SCOTUS has had numerous cases that have changed our nation for better and for worse. Some of the major cases assigned with the Supreme Court are Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Dred Scott v. Sanford, and many more. Despite the fact that I do not agree or favor with everything that the Supreme Court has decided on, I am appreciative that we have positions with that much power for people who do deserve to stand there and make wise choices for our nation and people