After Watching the Supreme Court videos, I learned many new things about the Supreme Court and how they managed and handled cases. One of the things that I learned was that the Supreme Court reviews thousands of petitions a year from across the country. Now, I knew that there were a lot of petitions to the Supreme Court but not as many as what was stated. Another thing that I learned was how many of those same cases made it to trial. In the video, it said out of the 7000 cases they deal with in a year only about 100 of those cases are even considered.
This leads me to the most important takeaway from the video. Because the Supreme Court has all these submissions, they must be careful about what cases they want to consider. Some of these submissions are, of course, outlandish but most of them can also have a deep impact on both the person and the U.S. Some of these submissions have the potential to change laws already passed and affect millions of people across the U.S. In one case, one of the Justices said that Congress has no right to ban or abolish Slavery. These actions were one of the events leading up to the Civil War.
This was the fact that was most surprising about the Supreme Court. Another surprise for me was to learn that the Justices must wait for people to bring problems that they want to discuss to court. For example, if a Justice wanted to talk about a certain topic, then they had to wait until someone brought it to the court's attention through a petition. It was my prior understanding that members of the Supreme Court could bring up topics that they wanted to discuss whenever they wanted.
Overall, this video changed the way I thought about the Supreme Court because it showed me how tough and demanding a job like this is. Not only Do they have to go through thousands of documents a year, but they also have to be very selective on what petitions they bring to their court as it will have a long-lasting impression on the wellbeing and state of the U.S.
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