What is the Supreme Court?

The Supreme Court is one of the most influential and the most powerful in the entirety of the world. Many other countries and legislative systems have mimicked and used the same process that the Supreme Court uses to make decisions in the country, which shows that it is the most powerful Court in the world. One thing that I learned about the Supreme Court that I didn't already know was that the average time of service on the Supreme Court is 16 years and it said in the video that it could be even more than that many presidencies after the president that inducted them into the Supreme Court. There are upwards of 7,000 cases that are sent to the Supreme Court yearly and the Supreme Court looks at each and every one of them and deems them important enough to be viewed and debated by the Supreme Court or not.

 

One thing that I found very interesting was that one of the justices talked about how every single one of those requests gets looked at by a supreme court member and that's unlike any other court in the world because they have the option to take court case that they want and they can review every single one of them with their own eyes and not just hear about the important ones. 

Probably the most surprising thing that I learned throughout the videos was that there may be things in the news that are super important and that they should have opinions on but the Supreme Court cannot do anything with that information like the president or Congress can unless there is a written report. That is surprising to me because if the Supreme Court is one of the most powerful courts in the world then sometimes they would have to wait for a very long time to make a decision compared to the president or Congress can come to a decision fairly quickly compared to the Supreme Court. This video helped me change the way I think about the Supreme Court because I used to think that they had all the power that they wanted and that they can make any decision at any time but there's a lot more that goes into it and they are very methodical in the ways that they make decisions and it's much more thought out and planned