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Judicial Branch

Judicial Branch. By Dean Francis Eaton I and David Christopher Atkinson I. Basic Function. System of courts supreme and state which interprets and applies the law in the name of the sovereign state . The courts. Do not make the laws, they enforce and uphold them

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Judicial Branch

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  1. Judicial Branch By Dean Francis Eaton I and David Christopher Atkinson I

  2. Basic Function • System of courts supreme and state which interprets and applies the law in the name of the sovereign state

  3. The courts • Do not make the laws, they enforce and uphold them • They interpret the laws as it relates to the case and constitution

  4. Powers of the Judicial Branch’s Supreme Court • Extended to cases in: • Law and Equity • Laws of the Untied States • Treaties made and that shall be made • Cases affecting Ambassadors/Public ministers and Consuls • Admirality and Maritime Jurisdiction

  5. Continued • Controversies that the United States is a party to • Controversies between states • Between a state and a citizen of a different state • Between citizens of the same state about land • Finally Treason to the United States

  6. Limitations • Cannot create laws • Judges are not aloud to have open public opinions of a case • Supreme court judges are elected for life

  7. Political Cartoon

  8. Specific Limitations, Mootness ,Standing ,Ripeness • Mootness = the court can no longer deal with cases that do not present real disputes • Exp. Prisoner that is released from Custody • Exp. Government agency ceases to Enforce regulation

  9. Standing • Standing = ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law the law or action challenged to support the party’s participation in the case • ( cannot go to supreme court and challenge a law that has no relation to your life) • Exp. People of Massachusetts cannot go to the Supreme court to ask to pass a law about Texas’s border control

  10. Continued • Exp. A person arrested under a law can challenge the law because he is directly affected by it

  11. Ripeness • Ripeness = “the readiness of a case for litigation” • Litigation = the conduct of a lawsuit • Exp. If a law of ambiguous quality has been enacted but never applied, a case challenging that the law lacks the ripeness necessary for a decision

  12. Judges Conduct

  13. Works Cited • http://www.whitehouse.gov/our_government/judicial_branch/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary

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