The Pros And Cons Of Judicial Review

The president is given the powers to: serve as the commander in chief of all U.S. armed forces, commission officers of the armed forces, grant pardons and reprieves from Federal offenses with the exception of impeachments, hold special sessions of Congress, receive foreign ambassadors, ensure Federal laws are executed, wield the “executive power” and appoint officials to lesser offices. The president shares the following powers with the senate: the ability to make treaties and appoint ambassadors, judges and higher officials. Both the president and Congress have the ability to approve legislation. eliminate and why?

The original cabinet members under George Washington were: the vice president, the secretary of foreign affairs, secretary of

Supreme Court is the highest federal court relative to circuit courts. As a result of this status, the Supreme Court essentially has the final say when it comes to any division involving the court. The Supreme Court also is given the power to judge whether federal, state, and local governments are properly abiding by the law. According to civilrights.org, 2/3 of the cases the Supreme Court dealt with were appealed from lower federal courts and 1/3 were appealed from state supreme courts.
Judicial review is the doctrine that allows the U.S. Supreme Court to review the constitutional validity of a legislative act. The concept of “judicial review originated far before it was instituted in the U.S; it began in Great Britain. In 1803 with the landmark case, Marbury v. Madison, the U.S. Supreme court affirmed the doctrine of judicial review. As a result, the Court became the chief interpreter of the Constitution.
The idea of judicial activism is that Supreme Court judges have the right to essentially “creatively” interpret the Constitution in order to align with their own ideas about the needs of contemporary society. The idea of judicial restraint is the opposite—judicial restraint refers to the idea that the judges’ own philosophies should not play a role into the decision and judges should make their decisions based on the text and facts