The Founding Era

While watching the Supreme Court videos they gave me a lot of insight on how the Supreme Court plays a big part with our country. Although I did have some prior knowledge about what the supreme court was from things like history class, and hearing about it in the news. It is the head of the Judicial branch of our government and also is the highest federal court in the nation. Through watching the videos I learned a lot about the Supreme Court that I didn't know. To start the Supreme Court is composed of nine justices which serve for a sixteen year term. Another thing that I didn't know is that the justices work with hundreds of cases each week. Another thing that I didn't already know is that they receive around 7,000 cases, however only around 100 of them are chosen to be looked into them further. 

To add, the most significant takeaways I learned was that opinion writing takes up most of the Supreme Courts time. This takes them almost four weeks to write. Whenever I thought of the justices working on a case I never would have thought that they would be writing things out. I always imagined them debating it verbally. Something that was surprising to me was how much power the Supreme Court has. I knew that the Court had power over congress and the states. however I didn't know how much power they had over the president. They even have the power to impeach the president if need be. 

Since watching these videos I definitely have a higher respect for the Supreme Court. I have gained much more knowledge on what they actually do, and that they play a key part in our government system. I never realized how much time the devote to our country. Each justices goes threw a very intense process to become a member of the court. I think it is important too realize this and respect all of them with equality.