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Can you be a Supreme Court Justice?

Welcome back to my blog. This post is for the third and final Action Project of the Humanities class, Policy. In this unit, Judge, our class has been focused on the Judicial Branch of the United States Government. We began the short unit by reading Article 3 of the United States Constitution, a  short article explaining the abilities and formation of the Judicial Branch. We then moved to look at Supreme Court decisions over the years and create a timeline, demonstrating our knowledge of a chosen cause and the impact it has had on the United States' political system, past, and future. To learn more about the beginning of the Supreme Court, we watched a PBS documentary. Moving more into the present day, we examined the Supreme Court case: Bush v. Gore. This case is very important to how the Supreme Court and other federal branches have been run in recent years. For Field Experiences in this unit, we spoke to Iyana Simba, a member of the Illinois Environmental Council. She spoke to us about IEC's work trying to promote and enforce legislation that will benefit the environment in Illinois but also working towards the same motives on a national level. In this Action Project, we have become Supreme Court Justice nominees and must answer questions given to us by Senators. These questions require us to demonstrate our knowledge of the Judicial Branch and the Constitution while also asking for our opinion. In the slideshow below, I have included each of the questions asked to me and my response. I hope you enjoy reading.

Supreme Court Hearing, GS, 2022

I thought this Action Project was very interesting to work on. In the beginning, we were given twelve questions to prepare for. Five of those questions would be randomly given to us and we would have to answer them no matter how much preparation we had. After a couple jokes and mentioning the pressing deadline of this Action Project, we were able to receive the questions early. As you may notice in the slideshow, we were given six questions but only had to answer five. This gave us the chance to choose not to answer one of the questions under lack of qualification. Originally, I struggled with trying to answer the questions because of other work that needed to be done in a short time frame and finding how I would interpret Supreme Court cases and the Constitution. I am proud of the answers I have been able to produce and thought hearing my classmate's responses to the same questions was very intriguing. Thank you for reading to the end and I hope to see you in the next post.
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