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The Supreme Court remains to be the highest Judicial body on Earth to this day. Originally established on March 4, 1789, the Supreme Courts main responsibility is to interpret the United States Constitution and implicate it to different cases. The Supreme Court is made up of 9 Justices, one which of being the Chief Justice. Throughout the years there have been just over 100 total Justices. the Supreme Court receives over 100 new cases every week. When they get these cases each Justice goes into their chambers to look over each case and form their own opinions on what they think should be done before they have a weekly conference on which cases they think they should discuss. Of course they all don't agree on these cases but regardless, they maintain respect for one another.



JusticesOne of the most interesting and remarkable facts I have learned about the Supreme Court is that before they all sit down to decide on what cases they should discuss they all shake hands. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner said it herself, she stated, "each justice shakes every other justices hand... when you've touched someones hand you're less likely to hold a grudge". This is important because it shows that they make sure they don't allow each others views affect how they feel about each other when they leave the conference. Also when they sit down and start discussing the cases at hand they make sure that every Justice has the chance to speak once before anyone speaks twice. This is very remarkable because even knowing that they each hold immense amount of power and respect they know the importance of letting one another speak and hearing each other out regardless of if they agree or disagree, something that people today sadly can't understand. If regular everyday people could act somewhat like the Supreme Court Justices we as people could fix the problems in todays society by just listening to one another and not letting peoples views affect how they are seen as a human being.


In all, the Supreme Court holds the highest Judicial power and has throughout the years but even though they have huge responsibility and have all of public faith on their shoulders they still have respect for one another regardless of their personal backgrounds, beliefs, and decisions. And thats something we all can learn from.

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