History and Workings of the US Supreme Court

    What I learned that I did not already know about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court is made up of people just like us, and that while many people assume that there is some sort of "inside story" of the Supreme Court, the truth is that there is not an inside story. Another thing I was surprised to learn about was that verdicts in the Supreme Court still go to majority vote, so there will still be Supreme Court justices who do not agree with certain things that happen. I also learned that there are Supreme Court correspondents, who essentially dictate everything that is written down by the Supreme Court justices and share that information with the press, who later shares that information with the rest of the world. According to Part II, depending on how arduous the case is, correspondents can write anywhere from just a few pages to over 80 pages of documentation.

    The most important take away point about the Supreme Court is that it's not this easy foolproof justice system that so many people think it is. There is a lot of work that goes into processing a case in the Supreme Court, and it is not as if all the Supreme Court justices are constantly in agreement with each other. They also have to make tough decisions sometimes to uphold the Constitution and decide if something can be considered unconstitutional.

    The most surprising thing I learned about the Supreme Court is that it is more of a team effort than I had previously realized. Most of the Supreme Court video was talking about how all the justices on the Supreme Court really worked together and how they were able to do that so efficiently. The video changed the way I thought about the Supreme Court in the process because before, I had assumed that while the Supreme Court was made up of 9 justices at a time, they all had individual strengths that they specialized in a division. I did not realize there was this much teamwork that went into running the Supreme Court, though now I can see that the teamwork makes up a really huge part of what makes the Supreme Court run so smoothly.