The Accelerated Passage Process

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Lastly, the bill id introduced to the president and they have ten days to veto the bill or sign it into a law. This process usually takes months, but in the case of an Accelerated Passage process, a bill can get to the president within ten days. However this does not occur often. The executive branch is the second branch, where laws are put into place. Under the executive branch are the President, Vice President, and the Cabinet. As far as power goes for this branch, the President can veto a bill brought to him. Since the President is the Head of State he must also do certain task. He must “host” and attend several different ceremonies, for example……He must also be the biggest supporter in a variety of organizations, and participate in things …show more content…

This group of people is called the Executive Office. The Executive office has many different task and other offices that go on within it, for instance one of these would be the office of the first lady. In each of the offices, the staff does the specific task they are appointed to. However, the staff in this office does not have the power to aide in important decision making. The people that the president goes to are people of his presidential cabinet. These people are head of fifteen different departments. The department of state, treasury, and defense are the first departments in the line of succession to the president. The people in these departments give advice to the President on their specific …show more content…

These cases must involve a matter of federal law or be within the control of federal courts. Most cases that come through are ones that the justices can all agree on the decision of the lower court or they agree that it has no significant point of law. The cases that do get brought through must go by the “the rule of four”. This is the rule that four out of the nine justices must think a case should put on the Court’s list of cases to be heard.. However there is still not many cases that make it to court. Most of the cases that do reach the Supreme Court are by writ of certiorari, which means “to be made certain” in Latin. This is an order by the Court directing a lower court to send up the record in a given case for its review. Both sides of a case can petition the Court to issue a writ. If certiorari is denied then the decision of the case lies with the lower courts decision. If the Courts agree to hear the case then is argued in court. The Justices are given information on each case and lawyers of both sides are given thirty minutes to present their argument. After the case has been argued, the majority opinion is what stands as the ultimate decision of the case. The Supreme Court can hear up to twenty four cases in a two week

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