The US Supreme Court
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- Created on: 07-04-19 21:54
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- Is the Supreme Court a political institution?
- NO
- Its members are judges, not politicians.
- The Court is independent - not subject to political pressure.
- Justices do not involve themselves in party politics, elections, campaigning or endorsing candidates.
- Makes decisions based upon legal and constitutional argument, not political ideology.
- YES
- Appointed by a politician (the President).
- Confirmed by politicians (the Senate), often on party-line votes.
- Makes decisions on issues that feature in elections (e.g. abortion, immigration, gun control) and over which the two main parties disagree.
- Some of its decisions have a quasi-legislative effect: it is as if a new law has been passed.
- Some people have described it as 'a third house of the legislature'.
- NO
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