- Identify and explain the organization of the Judiciary: The judiciary branch is the only branch that effectively interprets or reemphasizes the law in America. It is made up of 3 types of courts (two being federal): the District Courts, the Courts of Appeal, and last the most important - The Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
- Identify and provide examples of the powers of the Judiciary powers: Judiciary branch has every right to interpret the laws the constitutional way and to also determine whether or not an act is considered constitutional or not. For example, lets say you have a case based upon the issues of marijuana and the legalities, the district court (since it is a state case) will determine on the premises of the case, whether or not marijuana is legal to smoke there or not. This is just an example Ms. Ramos plse do not doc me lol.
- Identify and explain how Judiciary shares powers with the Congress, Executive, and bureaucracy: The judiciary branch serves the checks and balances of the other branches by making sure not one branch or area of power, abuses the other.
- Discuss the implications of Judiciary sharing powers with each of the following: Congress, Executive, and bureaucracy: Well Congress has the power to impeach judges, and Congress is capable of passing an unconstitutional law just by changing the parts of the document that fit the constitutions standards.
- Discuss the functions that Judiciary performs: Guardians of the Constitution, Defender of Individual rights, Creation of possible new laws that match the changes of our time, regulation of the legal actions of the state and central government, and given responsibility to determine or highlight the facts of a case that justify it to be constitutional or not.
- Identify how the power of the Judiciary has/may evolve gradually: Through the course of time, the amount of people in the judiciary branch gradually increased due to laws and policies that gave way to more lenient requirements and restrictions. Because of this, there are male and females in the court systems, SCOTUS is hearing a lower amount of cases than before due to better clarifications of the constitution over time and etc.
- Identify and discuss the ties between the Judiciary and political parties: The president appoints judges that have the same philosophical interests as he/she. So if we were to demonstrate the judicial judges of today, they would most likely be Judicial Liberal because Liberals are Democratic and our President is Democratic. So basically, the presidents party affiliation determines the judges on a court system.
- Identify and discuss the ties between the Judiciary and interest groups: When the Supreme Court takes on a case and have to read over briefs the verbal argument occurs, interests groups are allowed to send briefs to share their thoughts and opinions of a given case.
- Identify and discuss the ties between the Judiciary and media: Many of the Supreme Court cases are aired through programs such as c-span to help spread the public information of their officials and demonstrate/clarify constitutional and non constitutional acts. The media is also used to provide their own opinions of a case, and this usually can greatly affect the outcome of any case, given the circumstance it is put under.
- Identify and discuss the ties between the Judiciary and state and local governments: Below the Supreme Court we have the, District Courts and Courts of Appeal. These courts handle state laws, SCOTUS handles federal laws. Parties of a case that find the outcome "unfair" or "unjust" may appeal for another case, and if accepted, goes straight to SCOTUS for a review if any constitutional rights were violated.