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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.
“From the people’s point of view, justice in America is delivered first and foremost through the state courts,” she says. Factors ranging from the decimation of state court budgets to the politicization of state judicial elections by unprecedented sums of special interest funding to the loosening of ethical strictures on judicial campaign ...
At the time the framers created the U.S. Supreme Court, there had never before been such an institution in America. Under the Articles of Confederation, state courts were expected to resolve legal controversies, almost all of which were expected to occur at the state level.
The American habit of electing state court judges originates with Alexander Hamilton and Federalist No. 78, in which Hamilton brought about a fundamental reconceptualization of the idea of separation of powers with respect to the judiciary. Before Hamilton, both English and American people had thought of judges as mere appendages of royal ...
Primary election, in the United States, election to select candidates to run for public office. Primaries may be closed, allowing only declared party members to vote, or open, enabling all voters to choose which party’s primary they wish to vote in. Primaries may also be either direct or indirect.
The delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed early on that the new Constitution should establish a federal Judicial Branch including a Supreme Court; however, they debated other questions about how to balance federal and state judicial power.
28 Ιουν 2022 · The BCJ study provided a snapshot of how state supreme court justices sitting as of August 2016 obtained their positions in the twenty-two states where the state constitution calls for the election of the members of the state’s highest court.
