Essays on Supreme Court Justice

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Abstract

The democratic system of the United States should presuppose transparency and good faith associated with the activities of the fundamental institutions such as the Supreme Court of Justice. The real practice confirmed that there are some significant shortcomings associated with the structure of this legislative body such as absence of definite term limits for the members of the Court to carry out their functions. According to the Constitution there are no definite terms of responsibility. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior. At the same time the live tenure may ...

On January 21, 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that corporations had equal rights as individual citizens with regard to campaign contributions during political elections. This therefore implies that corporations also enjoy the protection of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights (Freedom of Speech). The court case was Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (Levin-Waldman, 2011, 178). The above reaction to the court decision is from the liberal side and I agree. I think that the decision was not good and not respectful of the rights of citizens. Democracy is no longer powerful when campaign elections can ...

Introduction

Clarence Thomas is the second African American to sit on the United States Supreme Court, preceded only by Thurgood Marshall who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. Clarence Thomas was nominated to the United States Supreme Court in July 1991 and was approved by the United States Senate by a very narrow margin in October of 1991. Throughout his term on the United States Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has been both hailed and criticized. He has been both compared to Thurgood Marshall and nicknamed an Uncle Tom. Throughout this paper, I will discuss United States ...

In the history of American Law, John Marshall remains one of the most influential chief justices. He was the fourth and longest-serving chief justice in the US Supreme Court from 1801-1835. According to expert commentators, John Marshall was the greatest Supreme Court justice of all time where he dominated the court and played a major role in the evolution of the American constitutional law

The Greatest Supreme Court Justice

John Marshall’s definition on the absolute role of the Court as a coequal branch of the United States government along with his declaration on the rights of the Supreme Court’s judicial review, created an equal ...

My Beloved World is the recently published book by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Coming from an impoverished Puerto Rican family living in the Bronx, and facing seemingly insurmountable odds like juvenile diabetes and a violent neighborhood, Justice Sotomayor rose to become the third female justice and the first Latino woman to ever occupy such a position in the United States Supreme Court. Early on in the book Sotmayor makes it clear that her book is a memoir and not an objective biography. She points out that memory is selective in its remembrances of past events which might be perceived differently by ...

This research paper addresses the following issues regarding capital punishment: Are convicted defendants easily convicted and sent to death row because they cannot afford high dollar lawyers? Is there a moral difference when the state kills as opposed to an individual? Should punishment be based on "eye for an eye" edict or the one that says to "turn the other cheek"?

For the purposes of this paper, research is focused mainly on the United States.

Research Regarding the first issue, Amnesty International quoted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who in February 1994 stated that “the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake”. The quotation preceded an article ...

Antonin Scalia is one of the current Supreme Court Justices. He holds the position of Associate Justice. Justice Scalia has been a part of the Supreme Court since President Ronald Reagan nominated him in 1986. Prior to becoming a Supreme Court Justice, Scalia worked in private practice as an attorney for six years. Additional experience as an attorney includes serving as General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, both during the Nixon administration. In regards to teaching experience, Scalia was a law professor at the University of Virginia and the University of ...