Supreme Court Essay

President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court justice on May 26, 2009, making Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic female to be nominated for higher court. Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954. She is currently a federal judge on the U.S Courts of Appeals for a Second Circuit. If nominated she will be replacing the retiring Justice David Souter and she will also be the first Hispanic and the third female Justice. This will be a huge milestone for the Hispanic community. Looking

established the Supreme Court’s power to declare a law unconstitutional. This historic argument began when James Madison, the secretary of state under Thomas Jefferson, refused to send commissions to the offices of some federal judges, and “the judges sued Madison to compel delivery” (Oates 210). These judges, including William Marbury, wanted the Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus to Madison. After all, Congress had passed a law specifically stating that the Supreme Court could issue writs

GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT The supreme court state that the constitution needs the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves. In June 1961, a burglary happened at the bay harbor pool room in Pana city, Florida. Clarence Earl Gideon was being arrested for been found nearby with a small amount of wine. Gideon did not have money to hire a judge and requested Florida circuit judge to appoint one saying that everyone is eligible

An early Supreme Court case that dealt with this issue was the 1969 case ‘Street vs. New York’. Sydney Street was found by police near a burning American Flag in central park, loudly proclaiming responsibility and other anti-flag declarations, all in response to the shooting of a civil rights leader. He was convicted specifically of speaking against the American flag, and in their ruling the Supreme Court found his speech did not justify a criminal charge. In another case in 1974, a college student

eventually the decision from the Courts for Mr. Cooper was the Death Penalty (Cooper v. Oklahoma, 1996). The US Supreme Court Stated the facts of interested for conducting a murder trial must not supersede the defendant’s civil rights

rights on Black men and women. As a lawyer and prominent Supreme Court justice he fought for Civil Rights and social justice, believed that racial integration was a right for all American citizens. Early in his professional life Marshall diminished racial barriers and overcame resistance despite large oppositions from colleagues and lawmakers. He then became a revolutionary who had the honor of becoming the first African American Supreme Court Justice, although, he did not have the religious affiliations

the fact of the refusal to honor the commission, he decided to invoke an act of congress and sue for their jobs in the Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus to force Madison to deliver the commission. The law in question challenged if Marbury was entitled to his commission? Does Marbury have a remedy? If Marbury has a remedy, can this remedy be issued from the Supreme Court? The holding and rule of Marbury included that yes, he does have right to commission. Marbury has the right to commission

Official Name of the Case: David Leon Riley, Petitioner v. California Date Case was heard in the National Supreme Court: April 29, 2014 Date Case was ruled on by the National Supreme Court: June 25, 2014 Name of the Justice who issued the majority opinion of the case: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. The 2014 Supreme Court Case of Riley v. California was about the warrantless search and seizure of digital contents of a cell phone during an arrest. David Riley was pulled over for expired license

The decisions made by Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall have had a major influence on today's Judiciary System. One of his major decisions was in the case Marbury v. Madison, in which he set the precedent of judicial review. Another major decision is in the case McCulloch v. Maryland, in this case Marshall ruled that Congress possesses certain implied powers. Other major decisions made by Marshall were in the cases Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, in which Marshall defined

in the Supreme Court for life has been debated for years. While our forefathers who crafted the constitution had reasons for the lifetime service, Americans have had varying positions regarding the issue. This essay discusses the two sides of the lifetime tenure of American justices serving in the Supreme Court, seeking to gain ground on whether the term should be retained or amended. The U.S. President is constitutionally allowed to appoint justices to serve in the country’s Supreme Court. However