The United States Supreme Court is one of the three branches of the U.S. Government and is known as the highest judicial court in the United States of America. The Supreme Court is considered by many to be the most powerful judicial system in the country and possibly the most powerful in the whole wide world. However, the Supreme Court was not always like this.
In 1789, Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, which officially established the judicial branch of the United States Government. In 1801, the Supreme Court moved to the nation's Capitol building in D.C. At the time, no one wanted to be in the judicial branch because the Supreme Court was considered a joke back then. When John Marshall was appointed as Chief Justice in 1801, he planned to elevate the power of the Supreme Court. Soon after, John Marshall and the court established the power of judicial review, which allowed them to dictate what things like regulations and treaties violate the U.S. Constitution. This change made the powers of each branch of government more balanced than before.
Today, there are now nine justices on the court instead of six like it was when it first began. The nine justices have the power to strike down a President's executive action, the power of judicial review, and have the highest jurisdiction over any cases on the state level and federal level. The only way to join the Supreme Court is for the President of the United States to appoint them. Surprisingly, there have only been about one hundred justices on the court in all of American history, as most of these members will stay on the court for about sixteen years or more. The Supreme Court receives almost 7,000 cases every year from people who appealed the lower courts ruling on a case. Due to the sheer amount of cases they receive every year, the Supreme Court can't accept all of them and will have to only allow to look over 100 cases a year.
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