The Supreme Court and the Presidency

The Supreme Court and the Presidency

Introduction

The highest court in the United States is the Supreme Court of United States of America. It has complete but greatly discretionary jurisdiction of appeal over all the federal courts and the stated cases of courts which involves issues of the federal law, and genuine jurisdiction over some range of cases. The court that comes in the building of Supreme court of United States which is in Washington, D.C., that consists of one chief justice and 8 associate justices that are nominated by Mr. Obama, who is the President of the United States of America and that is also confirmed by the Senate of United States of America. Once they are appointed, then the life tenure of justices is until they resign themselves, retire or they might get removed after the impeachment.

At the time of Chief justices Rutledge, Jay and Ellsworth during the period of 1789 to 1801, the supreme court heard a few cases, and the first decision of the court was West v. Barnes in 1791, that was a case which involved a procedural issue. The court did not have its own how and had less prestige, a situation which was not helped by the high profiled case of the century, Chisholm v. Georgia, which was quickly rejected by the 11th Amendment.

The power and prestige of the court waxed during the Court Marshall during 1801 to 1835. Under the rule of Marshall, the court developed the policy of judicial review, including and specifying itself as the expositor who was supreme of the Constitution (Marbury v. Madison) and that made various significant constitutional rulings gave substance and shape to the power balance among the states and the federal government. Prominently, McCulloch v. Maryland, Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and Gibons v. Ogden)

The Marshall Court also got ended the practice of every justice who issues his opinion seriatim, a leftover of the British tradition, and instead of that they issue an opinion with single majority. Also during the tenure of Marshall, which was though beyond the control of the Supreme Court, the acquittal and impeachment of the Justice Samuel Chase during 1804 to 1805 helped in concreting the policy of the judicial independence.

Bush v. Gore (2000), is the decision of the Supreme Court of United States which has effectively resolved the argument around the period when presidential elections in 2000 was in favor of George Bush. Just 8 days before, the Supreme Court of the United States of America had commonly decided the case which was closely related, the case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board in 2000, and just 3 days before, had preliminarily closed down the recount which was taking place in Florida.

In a decision, the Supreme Court decided that the method of Florida Supreme Court for recounting the ballots was a breach of the Clause of Equal Protection of the 14th Amendment. The cause for this was the insufficiency of the equal treatment of ...