Since its inception, the Supreme Court has served to uphold and enforce American values. As the first bill introduced and signed, the Judiciary Act of 1789 served as the foundation for the Supreme Court as well as the entirety of the U.S. judicial system. President...
Next month marks the birth of the Supreme Court. Established on September 24th, 1789, the Supreme Court is the only court that was specifically created by the Constitution in the United States. Initially, the Supreme Court was comprised of six members and they met for...
The U.S. Court system has two main branches. Federal courts decide cases brought against the United States, and cases that involve federal laws. States also have their own court systems authorized to hear cases involving citizens and laws of a particular state or...
In today’s issue of Edith Robert’s Tuesday Round-Up, she highlights a unanimous decision pertaining to the penalization of presidential electors who vote for candidates they did not pledge to support; the ruling here was that laws that punish electors do not go...
In this edition of the SCOTUSblog’s Round-Up, Edith Roberts highlights a few noteworthy cases dealing with religious freedom for death row inmates and prisoners in general as well as gender and sexuality-based discrimination in the workplace. Other prominent topics...
