Think back to a time when you were a kid, what activity brought you the most amount of pleasure or joy. Every person has a hobby, but I'm not thinking about hobbies specifically what action always filled you with joy. It didn't have to be a super exciting event but somehow it always gave you hunger for more and contentment. Mine as a kid was going to the beach. I loved going to the beach, building sandcastles, fighting the waves, and occasionally surfing.
Learning about the legal system makes me want to learn more and the more I learn the more empowered and intrigued it makes me feel. It is rare that we find things that give us such contentment and passion. Going into a legal career I had some knowledge of what the Supreme Court functions and responsibilities.
After watching the video it not only affirmed some of the things I already knew, it explained in detail other things, taught me new things, and made me look at things with a different perspective than I had before. Instead of reiterating the common facts that most already know about the Supreme Court, I will speak upon the things that stood out to me most.
Something that I learned was that Supreme Court's opinions may take a very long time to complete and justices may change
their minds after writing said opinions or may try to convince other justices to change their minds about a certain case. My most important takeaway is the relationship between the people's trust in the Supreme Court and its correlating power. Without trust, the citizens of the United States place in the Supreme Court's decisions to uphold the Constitution the nation falls into chaos.
The most surprising thing I learned is that justices view lawyers as intermediaries. Instead of blatantly asking a question to another judge during a hearing a judge can ask the attorney the question so that the other justice indirectly here's the question and begins to think about the statement.
Before the video, my thoughts on the Supreme Court were it is a powerful entity given power by the framing of the government years ago. I still stand by that statement but I have slightly modified the interpretation. Instead of the Supreme Court getting its power from the government it is getting power from the citizens it presides over. It is truly amazing, the more learned about the legal system the more respect one has for the founding fathers and their astounding knowledge and actions they used to create the systems in place for the judicial system of the United States.
