There are two main purposes of the United States Supreme Court. The first purpose of the Supreme Court is to interpret the acts of Congress. This is quite similar to the acts of the lower state courts. The court interprets the law as cases are brought to them. The other function is to determine whether federal and state statutes conform to the Constitution. However the rulings of the Court can be changed if the laws of the Constitution are amended or the opinions are modified later. The other purposes

The President of the United States selects the Supreme Court Chief Justices and Associate Justices. Since 1869 there were nine justices that sat on the bench. However though in 1789 when the Court began it started out with six members. Then in 1807 they appointed 8 justices to the court. It changed to nine justices in 1837 and then there were 10 in 1866. The justices stay on the bench until his tenure based on good behavior. A justice may be impeached however there has only been one justice who has done so. The nine current justices that are serving are Chief justice William H. Rehnquist, he is 73, serving his 26th year on the bench, and his 12th as Chief Justice, and Justice John Paul Stevens, who was appointed by President Gerald Ford. Then there are the appointees of President Reagan, Sandra Day O'Connor, the first women Justice to serve on the bench, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy. President Bush appointed Justice David H. Souter. I am not sure who appointed Justice Clarence Thomas, who was involved in a recent scandal. The last recently

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