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The Supreme Court of the United States  is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. Established pursuant to Article III of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, it has original jurisdiction over a small range of cases, such as suits between two or more states, and those involving ambassadors. It also has ultimate  appellate jurisdiction over all federal court and state courtcases that involve a point of federal constitutional or statutory law. The Court has the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution or an executive act for being unlawful. However, it may act only within the context of a case in an area of law over which it has jurisdiction. The Court may decide cases having political overtones, but it has ruled that it does not have power to decide nonjusticiable political questions. Each year it agrees to hear about 100–150 of the more than 7,000 cases that it is asked to review,More info:wiki

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#10   Supreme Court Expansion of Presidential Power: Unconstitutional Leanings,More info:startingpointsjournal

Starting with the Curtiss-Wright decision in 1936 and carrying forward to Zivotofsky v. Kerry in 2015, the Supreme Court has resorted to erroneous dicta and deference to promote independent executive power in external affairs. These judicial misconstructions have done severe damage to basic constitutional principles, including checks and balances and self-government.

The bias toward presidential power did not appear on the Court for the first century and a half. Litigation resulting from military action against France, beginning in 1798, gave full appreciation to the constitutional authority of Congress. In Talbot v. Seeman (1801), the Supreme Court was guided by this principle: “The whole powers of war being, by the constitution of the United States, vested in Congress, the acts of that body can alone be resorted to as our guides in this inquiry.” In a subsequent case, Little v. Barreme (1804), the Court had to decide a conflict between the statutory policy of Congress and a conflicting proclamation issued by President John Adams after the war began. In a unanimous decision, the Court held that congressional policy must prevail. In subsequent decisions, the Court recognized the express constitutional power of Congress over foreign commerce, including its application to immigration policy.

#9   Clerking at the Supreme Court, as told by the lucky few who’ve been there, done that, got the judicial robe…,More info:chambers-associate

 

#8    The Supreme Court takes on two redistricting cases from Texas,More info:economist

THE SUPREME COURT rejects about 99% of the 7,000 to 8,000 petitions that reach it each year. But when it comes to cases involving reapportionment—challenges to how states draw lines for congressional or state legislative elections—the justices can’t be quite so choosy. Congress has chipped away at the cases subject to mandatory review by the Supreme Court, but it has kept it for redistricting cases where an election looms and time is of the essence. If skewed electoral maps may need to be redrawn, a special three-judge federal court is convened to hear the case; an appeal goes right to the Supreme Court, bypassing America’s 13 circuit courts.

This quirk of Supreme Court procedure explains why the justices have now agreed to hear four gerrymandering cases this term, including two added on January 12th. These recurring matters may be their least-favourite to resolve. In 2016, Justice Stephen Breyer told lawyers in a racial-gerrymandering dispute that he had hoped his majority opinion in a similar 2015 case “would end these cases in this court”. But Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v Alabama “certainly doesn’t seem to have” done so, Justice Breyer rued then. And, apparently, 2017 rulings in Bethune-Hill v Virginia State Board of Elections and Cooper v Harris haven’t done so either.

#7    Supreme Court Justices to Consider Madison Execution,More info:apr

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of an Alabama death row inmate who lawyers say suffers from dementia and can no longer remember killing a police officer in 1985.

Justices will hear arguments today as to whether it would be unconstitutional to execute 68-year-old Vernon Madison. Madison was convicted of killing Mobile police officer Julius Schulte in 1985.

The U.S. Supreme Court has said death row prisoners must have a “rational understanding” that they are about to be executed and why.

Attorneys for Madison argue he is incompetent to face execution because he “does not remember the crime for which he has been convicted.”

The Alabama attorney general’s office will argue that while Madison’s health has declined, he understands his crime, conviction and sentence.

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#5 Supreme Court won’t hear Trump bid to end DACA program,More info:cnn

 

#4   United States Capitol and the Supreme Court Building Washington DC,More info:rvmotion

 

#3    In wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on hate speech and the First Amendment, more good news may be on the way,More info:washingtonexaminer

 

#2   Supreme Court Decision: McDonnell v. United States,More info:JONES DAY®

 

#1   Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Prime Inc. Dispute Over Arbitration,More info:ttnews

 

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