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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Post #1 - Supreme Court

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These videos I watched during the class taught me some ideas about the Supreme Court, what goes into a case, and how they operate them. It seemed very interesting when the justices were talking about how things have evolved over time with changes made in the Constitution-making them have to rethink their decisions on cases. 

Some of them were explaining that certain people don’t understand that they have to wait for people to bring problems to them. They don’t think they’ll there’s a problem and get to work on it. No, it doesn’t operate like that at all. The court doesn’t have to decide on everything until it comes to their attention and they need to make a decision.

The justices have to be ready to handle as many cases at a time since there are so many cases they get a week which is approximately one hundred cases. Most of them are cases where people want to revert the decision that was made on it. Basically, some of them thought the verdict was made unfair on their part. I wonder why it's hard for them to make a decision on the verdict, and what people would think of them for making that decision on it.

During the case, the justices will listen to the oral arguments that are being made on both sides during the session. So they have to develop an opinion to believe which side seems more reasonable and sometimes will write down separately to keep to themselves. They make a decision which takes a long time to make and takes some time four weeks long. Once they finished it they announced to the public at the end of a term. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWRoXYRsaeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8qSuWxcG8&t=622s

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