Blog post #2

The History of the Supreme Court 

   

After reading about the history of the supreme court that goes all the way back to 1789, I learned many new things that I didn't know about the supreme court until taking this class. Such as, that if needed the court that is made up of nine justices can use their power to check the actions of the two other branches of government, the executive branch of the president, and the legislative branch that belongs to Congress. 

    What was fascinating to me was that George Washington would make a a pact or law that the six justices would have to serve on the court until they died or retired. I also learned that even though the court first met on February 2, 1970 it actually never heard any cases in its first term it was just for standard organizational procedures. 

  I had never heard of the court case West vs. Barnes which is a case involving a financial dispute between a farmer and a family he owed debt to, even in my prior history courses I had never of this which is why I decided to read more up on it. Even a 100 years after the making  of the Supreme Court, the justices were still required to hold a "circuit court" twice a year for judicial reasons, but the justices found it unnecessary, therefore Congress did away with it in 1891.

https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/supreme-court-facts