https://padlet.com/laila_chakrowf/5c3tbnj01yvj en-us 2017-11-08 16:26:53 UTC 2023-02-15 00:39:05 UTC hello@padlet.com laila_chakrowf https://padlet.com/laila_chakrowf/5c3tbnj01yvj/wish/204905177 The processes for nominating and confirming Supreme Court justare the same as those for other federal judges. In both cases, there are few constitutional requirements and numerous political considerations involved.

• Constitution: There are only two requirements: the person must be nominated by the president and receive the consent of the Senate.
• Conformation by thr senate: Since the Constitution was adopted, the Senate has confirmed about 80 percent of presidential Supreme Court nominations. Until the early part of the twentieth century, the Senate usually held hearings to learn about a nominee and then voted on the nominee within a week of receiving the president’s submission. That started to change in the 1980s. Today, we expect a Supreme Court nomination to be a major political and media event. Now, confirmations are neither fast, nor easy and are usually contentious.
• The process and politics: As soon as a sitting justice announces his or her retirement, or if a justice dies, both the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee begin working on the nomination process. White House and Senate staff members conduct extensive research about the personal and judicial backgrounds of multiple candidates. Presidents get a tremendous amount of advice from staff and advocacy groups and often interview a short list of candidates before announcing the nominee.

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Merit and idealogy: A nominee’s judicial temperament—which means being open minded, courteous, patient, and committed to equal justice under the law—is also important, as is a demonstration of his or her understanding of the judicial role in our constitutional order. One way the president can have an impact well beyond the term of the presidency is by placing someone on the Court who shares the president’s ideological perspective.

Representativeness: Presidents often want a group of justices who are somewhat representative of the country. Historically, presidents were concerned with geographic representativeness and sometimes with religious representativeness, even while all of the justices were white men. Today, however, gender and racial representation appear to be important to presidents. As of 2014, there were six men and three women on the Court, including one African American justice and one Latina justice.

]]> 2017-11-08 16:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/laila_chakrowf/5c3tbnj01yvj/wish/204909477 laila_chakrowf https://padlet.com/laila_chakrowf/5c3tbnj01yvj/wish/204912230 Citizens, interest groups, businesses, and many others have different opinions about the role the Supreme Court should play in our federal system when it uses the power of judicial review. Should judges seek to change society or leave making changes to our elected representatives in the legislative and executive branches? Some advocate judicial restraint; others argue for judicial activism. What do those phrases mean?

• Judicial Restraint and Judical Activism: Those who support judicial restraint believe that the Court should avoid overturning laws passed by democratically elected bodies, like Congress or state legislatures. Those who support judicial activism believe the opposite: that the Court must step in when Americans’ rights are violated.
• Influences on deciThe justices must decide how to determine what the text of the Constitution means when the words are unclear.

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While Supreme Court opinions affect millions of Americans’ lives, set law, and sometimes change national policies, the Court is not all-powerful. The executive and legislative branches have important checks on the Supreme Court’s power.

• The president has the power to appoint justices, while the Senate has the power to approve or reject those appointments. Congress has the power to impeach and remove justices. Congress even decides how many justices will be on the Supreme Court and sets their salaries.
• If the American people do not like a Supreme Court ruling, they can (through their elected representatives) change the law or the part of the Constitution that the Supreme Court interpreted. For example, think about a federal law that bans discrimination against people with disabilities. If the Supreme Court decides that the law means that private clubs need to install wheelchair ramps—but Americans disagree with that decision—then Congress can amend the law to exclude private clubs.

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