Supreme Court Cases

No matter which way you look at the Supreme Court, there will always be an odd number of justices. As of today there are a total of nine Supreme Court justices in office and every single one of them has a very important job that need to be done. Each justice is nominated by the President of the United States, and then voted on in congress. If the nominee gets past the first 15 senators that conduct the interview then they must go and get passed by the whole congress. Each of the Justices that sit on the court now have made it through that process, and everyone to follow will also have to go through that same process. There is one justice that stands out to me in particular, and that is Justice John G. Roberts from Buffalo New York. Roberts

Roberts’s high academic level in high school and as well in college really stood out to the people in the federal system. “Again he distinguished himself academically, graduating with high honors and catching the eye of Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Friendly, one of the most widely respected appellate court judges in the country, hired Roberts as his law clerk. At the end of a year, Roberts moved on to another clerkship, this one to then-Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court.”(Lockhart) Robert’s not only caught the attention of the justices, he also got noticed by two Presidents. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both noticed Robert’s in his early years of his career. “When he finished his Supreme Court clerkship in 1981, he was hired by the Reagan administration, first as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General and then as Associate Counsel to the President…..Then, in 2001, President George W. Bush nominated him to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, widely considered the most important intermediate appellate court in the country.”(Lockhart) Robert’s has always stood out in grade school, college, and even in his political career, it makes since why he is now serving as head of the Supreme

United States looks to be one of the top priority cases. The case itself is about a man who order child pornography, and was found to have thousand more inside of his house. The courts want to assign a minimum sentence, but Lockhart argues that there shouldn’t be any because the first crime did not involve a minor. “In June 2010, undercover federal agents conducted an operation in which Avondale Lockhart ordered a number of videos containing child pornography. When the agents ostensibly delivered the ordered videos, they executed a search warrant and discovered over 15,000 images and at least nine videos depicting child pornography on Lockhart’s computer. Lockhart was subsequently charged with possession of child pornography, and he pled guilty. Lockhart had previously been convicted in state court of first-degree sexual abuse due to an incident involving his adult girlfriend. Based on this previous conviction, the pre-sentencing report for Lockhart’s child pornography sentencing recommended that Lockhart be subject to a mandatory minimum sentence. Lockhart argued that the mandatory minimum did not apply to him because the previous sexual offense did not involve a minor. The district court rejected Lockhart’s argument and held that the mandatory minimum sentence applied. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the lower court’s decision.”(John)After doing some research on