THE SUPREME COURT

Established by the U.S. Constitution, the SCOTUS is the head of the judicial branch of the government. It has ultimate jurisdiction over all evaluation of laws with the United States. The SCOTUS can check the other two branches of the government, the executive and legislative. 

Though the Supreme Court began under George Washington with only six justices, now nine serve. I did some research on some interesting cases of the Supreme Court. Although I have done a lot of research on the effects of Roe .vs. Wade, and the effects this ruling had on women’s reproductive health, I decided for this blog post to dig deeper into Loving v. Virginia. 

Here is an excerpt from https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/supreme-court-facts on the case: 

And chief justice Earl Warren, in the 1950s and 1960s, issued numerous landmark decisions, including ones that banned school segregation (Brown v. Board of Education), put in place Miranda rights or the “right to remain silent” warning given by police (Miranda v. Arizona), and abolished interracial marriage prohibitions (Loving v. Virginia). 

I thought deeply about the cases under Earl Warren, specifically how Loving v. Virginia paved way for ME to be alive. My parents taught me about this supreme court case since I was young, due to my dad being black and my mom being white. It fosters the ideas of how important the SCOTUS is in determining extremely important cases that change the entire makeup of our country.