Blog Post #2 The Supreme Court

1. From the video I learned that supreme court members spend a large amount of time being on the supreme court. the video said they average around 16 years and some can go on to double that. Whether or not that length of time is good or bad is an interesting topic for discussion. On one hand all those years of experience give the judges knowledge that no ordinary person could obtain but at a certain point if all the judges are double or triple the ages of most Americans it can lead to a wedge between the judges and the people they are working for as government officials. This is why I believe term limits in the supreme court should be something that us as the American people push for as part of our agenda.

2.The most important takeaway from the video for me is how long and tedious the entire process of being heard by the supreme court is. Not only will the vast majority of cases never make it to trial but even the ones that do can take months to reach a conclusion. With the court taking that much time to come to a conclusion on a case the American people can have faith that every piece of evidence and legislation pertaining to the case was reviewed multiple times to get the most fair and impartial ruling possible.

3.The most surprising thing I learned about the supreme court is the sheer amount of cases they get and that they all range in topic, origin and recipient for instance the video talks about how one request can be from an inmate who believes they should be free and another could be from the president trying to prove their authority over a certain matter. I believe this amount of case diversity is crucial to upholding the values of the American justice system. If you only hear the needs of the rich and politicians then you leave out the voices of the American people but if you only hear the peoples needs then those who are elected to govern this country wont be able to properly do so.

4.The video changed the way I saw the supreme courts role, I was always under the impression that they mostly handled country wide laws but in fact they take cases from citizens and corporations too. This is how the highest court in the nation should be run as a workforce for all not just the elite.