Unbiased University: Everything You Need to Know About the Supreme Court of the United States
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What is the Supreme Court and why is it important?
Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis. Welcome back to Unbiased Politics and to the Unbiased University Education Series. This is Episode 9 of the Unbiased University Series, and it also happens to be an episode all about the Supreme Court of the United States. So over the last two weeks as part of this Unbiased University Series, I put out a three-part mini series where we talked about the three branches of the federal government, the legislative branch, the judicial branch, and the executive branch. And the reason that I'm giving you that context is because today's episode will almost serve as an extension to the judicial branch episode. We covered the Supreme Court briefly in that episode, but it was more so about the history of the judicial branch, why it was created, what kind of shaped the judicial branch, and just really the federal court system in general.
But this episode really dives deep into the Supreme Court specifically, and that's because the Supreme Court is such an important part of of our federal government. So it's just really important that we understand its purpose and how it functions. Throughout this episode, I'll pretty much cover everything you need to know about the court. So I'll go through the history of the court, including when it was founded, where the court was originally located, when the court issued its first ever opinion, and much, much more about the history alone. Then I'll cover the justices. So how many justices sit on the bench? How are the justices selected and appointed? I also include a short biography of each of the justices currently on the bench.
I'll discuss the difference between the chief justice and the rest of the justices, also known as the associate justices. I'll discuss the difference between opinions and dissents, the various aspects of the court procedure, and others. a lot more so there's there's just a lot to learn in this episode and we are expecting some pretty important supreme court decisions in the coming months including cases about presidential power and the separation of powers birthright citizenship transgender athlete issues and more so i think i think this is actually a great time to release this episode Now, I say this at the start of every Unbiased University episode, but I want you to think of this Unbiased University series as a condensed law school education.
I want you to imagine that every time you're tuning into one of these episodes, you are sitting down in a 30 to 45 minute law school class with me as your professor. And in each class, we cover a different topic and we talk about the various cases and laws that have shaped those topics. By the end of this series, you will have obtained your imaginary degree from Unbiased University, which means that you will be fully prepared for the show when I come back from maternity leave and get back to reporting on current events. Because all of these concepts that we're talking about, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the three branches of government, presidential elections, etc., they're all in the background of every single current event that we talk about.
So it's really important that we all understand them. Now, although I am on maternity leave, as a reminder, if you are still interested in getting an unbiased rundown of current events, I am still cranking out articles on Substack when I can. So definitely go ahead and subscribe to my Substack by clicking the link in the show notes for this episode. It's totally free. I just need your email address so that I can send you those articles when they go out. OK, so without further ado, let's talk about the Supreme Court. First and foremost, the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. OK, it can be found at one first street northeast in Washington, D.C. It is a gorgeous, spectacular building. If you've never been, I highly recommend going and seeing it at least once in your life.
The court is made up of nine justices, one of which is the chief justice.
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