Going into the article about the Supreme Court I have very little knowledge of them other than that they are the highest federal court in this country. The Supreme Court was established in 1789 by Article Three of the U.S. Constitution. It’s made up of six justices meant to serve until they died or retired. Their first assembly was postponed by a day, so they first met on February 2nd, 1790, but had no cases within its first term. The six justices handed out their first decision over a year later on August 3rd, 1791, just a day after they heard both arguments for the case West v. Barnes. All of this was new information for myself, and it’s amazing to look back and see how far the system goes. The part where for the first term of the Supreme Court it didn’t have any cases I found amusing in that they designed this system to deal with matters, but there wasn’t anything to deal with. It also was the most surprising information from the article in my opinion. Through the entire article the most important information about the Supreme Court was the power they have. The Supreme Court has the power to, if necessary, check the actions of the other two branches of government, the executive branch and the legislative branch. They have the ultimate jurisdiction over every law in the United States.
The overview posted on History.com by the History channel was very informative, and you can find the link to the exact article, here: https://www.history.com/topics/us-government-and-politics/supreme-court-facts
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