Supreme Court Research Paper

The court system in the United States is divided into many different kinds of courts that serve different purposes. Some of the courts within the US court system that will be discussed in this paper are the United States Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals. Since the United States Supreme Court is the highest court in the land a special emphasis will be placed in this court to cover its décor, decorum, and meanings. The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest court of all courts in the United States and unlike other courts where the person controlling the court is the judge, in the U.S. Supreme Court the main person in control is the United States Chief Justice along with the eight Associate Justices which they are all nominated by the president

Supreme Court as well as the administrator of the administrators of all federal courts, it is the job of the Chief Justice of the United States to ensure that all the federal courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court are running smooth and staying within the budget (Shapiro, 2005). Another important responsibility of the Chief Justice of the United States is to write important opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as in other cases decide which of the associates will write other opinions (Shapiro, 2005). The Chief Justice of the United States is a very unusual as well as important job that is full of many important responsibilities, it is so unusual that it is not described very well in the constitution and there has been only sixteen Chief Justices of the United States since the first presidential election in 1788 (Shapiro,

Supreme Court is to ensure that the history and the architecture of the U.S. Supreme Court is properly preserve to avoid damage, the curator is also in charge to promote the history of the court to the public by making the U.S. Supreme Court available to the public by providing tours so that the public can see it for themselves and learn about the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and why it is so important (Supreme Court of the United States). The U.S. Supreme Court started to hear cases in New York City, then in Philadelphia, and eventually in the Capitol building in Washington D.C. since the 1700s, but it was not until 1935 when the U.S. Supreme Court moved out of the Capitol to its own building right across the street where it still is there today, it took three years of construction to build the U.S. Supreme Court (Architect of the