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Hugo Black and William Douglas
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Supreme Court justices need to understand the Constitution because they are supposed to make their decisions on cases based solely on the Constitution, with as little bias as possible.
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The US Constitution is the historic legal document that most US Supreme Court rulings are based on.
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The precedence was established through the US Supreme Court ruling on the interpretation of specific factors related to freedom of the press and freedom of speech as defined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
The only court the Constitution refers to is the United States Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court does not have the power to amend the Constitution. Only the process of constitutional amendment outlined in Article V of the Constitution can be used to amend the Constitution. The Court's role is to interpret the Constitution and its amendments, not to amend them.
Sovereign immunity was granted to the states after a Hans v. Louisiana ruling in 1890. The Supreme Court found that it was held in the eleventh amendment of the Constitution that states are immune to being sued.
Any court can interpret the constitution, but the US Supreme Court is the final arbiter on constitutionality.
The Constitution for the US is a list of rules that was written when the US got its freedom from England and has helped us run our country ever since then. When ever someone disagrees with a law that was passed they take that law to the Supreme Court which looks over that law with the Constitution to see if it agrees with the Constitution.