Is the Supreme Court blameless relative to the early SC decision released controversies
Note: This was the paper we submitted for one of my political science class last 2008.
Is
the Supreme Court blameless
relative to the early SC decision released controversies
SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court is the last
bastion of democracy, but its office has been misused and abused by litigants
out to frustrate the cause of justice. It is not uncommon to find losing
litigants from the lowest level of the justice system to appeal their cases all
the way up to the Supreme Court. Most lawyers, knowing that they are going to
lose the case, take advantage of the time delay in resolving cases at each
stage of the judicial system by virtue of their right to appeal. The Supreme
Court, on the other hand, being lenient to the losing litigants, has allowed
itself to be used to frustrate justice by giving due course to frivolous
appeal.
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