Legal-US courts

· E-activity -Go to the U.S. Supreme Court Website located at http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/about.aspx . Review the following sections of the Website and be prepared to discuss:

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· Constitution of the United States of America

· A Brief Overview of the Supreme Court

· The Court and Constitutional Interpretation

· The Court as an Institution

· The Court and Its Traditions 

· Use the Internet to research the selection processes of judges in your state. Be prepared to discuss.

· From the first e-Activity, analyze the role of judges in our adversary system, and describe the procedure for the selection of the U.S. Supreme Court judges. Select the judicial selection method that you believe provides the greatest result—selection by merit or by election. Justify your response.

· From the second e-Activity, compare your state’s judicial selection process with that of the federal judicial selection process. Point out the differences that you believe exist, and provide a rationale for your response.

· Assess the importance of a judge’s role as an impartial actor in the pursuit of justice. Suggest two (2) scenarios where a judge’s discretion—or lack thereof—may have led to disparate outcomes in a trial. Support your response with examples of judges in such a role.

· Suggest two (2) possible sanctions that a judicial sanctioning board could impose against a judge who has accepted a bribe while presiding over a case. Describe two (2) techniques that you believe would be appropriate to use for removing a judge guilty of such conduct from the bench.