Supreme Court foundations

The Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the entire world and consists of nine justices with one chief justice. The Supreme Court receives a couple hundred cases, arguments, etc. weekly and about 7,000 per year. The justices meet weekly over what cases to decide to vote on and which to review that have already been argued. Typically, the Supreme Court will only end up hearing about 80 of those cases per year. Upon entering the private room, each justice shakes hands in that there is no grudges after the case is decided and in that there is opposing opinions. The supreme court essentially makes opinions in private and quiet which really tests the faith of the American people in them.

Supreme Court appointed Justices serve life terms, decades after Presidents come and go. There is a large mystique hanging around the Supreme Court all the time but the inside story of the Supreme Court is that there is no inside story because everyones opinion is out there and open.

The Supreme Court is very thorough and has one hour of open oral arguments, whereafter once all of the arguments are heard, the nine leave alone to vote on the case. Once the decision is made, one of the justices on the majority side writes up an opinion on the decision made and why they made it. This arguing opinion typically takes the longest time to write as law clerks help draft the opinion since this argument can typically be binding for decisions for other courts for the rest of time. Usually, the draft takes about four weeks. Other justices can create side opinions, if necessary, and on rare occasions the majority becomes the minority.

Sometimes, the Supreme Court makes mistakes such as the Dred Scott decision which was one of the courts greatest self inflicting wounds. The court ruled in favor of not granting African Americans citizenship and counting them as people. This was obviously later overturned but goes to show that the Supreme Court is not perfect. Ultimately, the power of the court is the trust earned of the American people. No one is there to deny the decisions of the Supreme Court, and that is why faith must be placed in them to keep laying down major foundations for the future of our country.

Trump Supporter Versus Native American

In the news recently, there has been a lot of talk over a Trump supporter who is a young student (Nick Sandmann) that was staging a peaceful protest along with Native Americans in opposition fighting for their cause. All of a sudden the Native Americans came up to the young students in a clash. The controversy started when a video hit the news of the young Trump supporter having a stare off with the Native American (Nathan Phillips). The media portrayed it as rude and provoking and how the student initiated the clash from the one video they received. The school admitted an apology for the student's actions.

Days later, the student didn't apologize and stood by what he did. Then, a new video emerged of the Native American initiating the clash and provoking the situation. What ensued was us seeing students in confusion, a bunch of kids not knowing what was going on. This prompts the question over whether either side was outside of their rights in the situation.

The truth is that under the Constitution, both sides have the complete right to speak their opinions under the First Amendment. Neither side did anything necessarily wrong. Since there was no physicality involved, no crimes were committed and both sides were perfectly within their rights. The media, however, are the ones at fault as they wrongfully portrayed a student starting a clash whereas it was the other way around. Many major media outlets had to apologize and admit that they jumped to conclusions. They failed to mention that the Native American, Nathan Phillips, has had a reputation for a similar clash before, and that this is nothing new. The school later had to revoke their apology because the student wasn't initiating anything but more in confusion over how to proceed when confronted. Ultimately, it creates the fact that people shouldn't believe everything they hear at first but rather check multiple sources and make sure that the information they are gathering is full encompassing. This will create for a well rounded view in that the media is not perfect.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nativeamerican-idUSKCN1PF08H