Jack Booher Com Law

There have only been alittle over 100 supreme court justices. There are only nine at a time assigned and they are assigned by the president. The supreme court justices will alot of times stay in their position decades after the president that appointed them has left office. They on average serve 16 years which if you think about it is on average through the time of 4 different presidential terms. The Supreme court receives on average 100 new cases a week. Most of these are petitions to get decisions made by lower courts overturned because the person does not feel that the right choice was made in their case. These in one year tend to add up to around 7,000 and out of those they might only get to about 100 a week. Each justice is responsible for deciding for each case. The justices meet weekly in conference to decide which of the cases to accept. Every time they meet to discuss they shake hands because even though they might not agree on the cases it is easier to not hold a grudge if ...

At Iowa State University there has been some issues regarding the freedom of speech specifically with issues around the upcoming political election. The University has taken a stand against forms of communications such as "chalking" which is simply the act of using public side walks to spread messages and information by writing it down on the sidewalk. They have also banned the use of school email for communicating political agendas and spreading messages about upcoming events and voting opportunities. The universities defense is that they are trying to block out hate speech because not everyone may agree with it and they want to avoid offending anyone. The university does have some reasons for doing this that seem valid because they do own the school emails but it still doesn't warrant blocking the use of these communication devices because even though there is probably hate speech that could come about from these it doesn't mean everyone that will communicate t...