SCOTUS 1

Precedent

• Use of previous cases to decide current similar case
• Based on President's judgement
• Applying that courts' previous ruling to the current case
• Federal Jurisdiction

Stare decisis

• use of similar cases to determine the current case.
• Scared straight program
• Platonic, Activism, Restraint, Originalism
• Applying that courts' previous ruling to the current case.

Serve for life. Salary can only increase

• Article I justices
• Article IV justices
• Article II justices
• Article III justices

Decides issues of facts

• Original jurisdiction
• Appellate jurisdiction
• Federal jurisdiction
• State jurisdiction

Established judicial review

• Brown v board
• Marbury v Madison
• Barron v Baltimore
• Gibbon v Ogden

Not a “power” of the chief

• Votes last
• Can change vote
• Controls court bureaucracy
• Writes or assigns opinion