Federal Court
Essays

¶ … U.S. federal court system is made up of three branches -- the Supreme Court, the district courts and the appeals courts. Each of these three branches of the federal court system bears some similarities, since they…

¶ … federal court has the power to determine the legality of a challenged action as long as the government in question has not taken steps to make that type of action illegal. Furthermore, the city enacted a similar…

The First Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights, and prohibits the making of any law " impeding the free exercise of religion," infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering…

The Tenth Amendment was originally intended to define the limits of federal power and the Ninth Amendment to limit the construction of new federal powers. This changed during the 20th century and by the turn of the millennium the Rehnquist Court had rendered the Ninth Amendment moot by conferring both powers to the Tenth Amendment. This essay examines this history and how federal preemption has been applied to two recent Supreme Court cases.

Background of Terrorist Trials in the United States Terrorism occupies a unique liminal position, somewhere between acts of war and criminal acts. Because of this, jurisdiction, the rights of terrorist suspects, and…