1973 Frontiero v. Richardson Case

Before my junior year ended, our Policy class mused on the Judicial Branch. We tested each other in court vocabulary words, such as, amicus curiae, meaning "friends of the court", or writ of certiorari, a document asking the Supreme Court to review a case. An interesting discussion we had was when our classes acted as Justices of the Supreme Court and had to vote on the Bush Administration's reaction to the events of 9/11 as constitutional or unconstitutional, as well as come to an unanimous vote. In the years 2001-2008, the Bush Administration suspended habeas corpus, the requirement of a person under arrest to be taken to court or brought before a judge. It is a legal right that was taken away and left hundreds of suspects of terrorism in a detention center at Guantanamo Bay. They were forced into "enhanced interrogation", such as water boarding, but in my opinion, such an act is still torture. Enhanced Interrogation should be enhanced in the sense that it impulses truth from someone with little to no harm, such as a truth serum. In the end, our unanimous vote was that this action was immoral. On the vote of unconstitutionality, a majority voted it constitutional, since the suspension of habeas corpus could be enacted in a state of emergency or invasion, in which 9/11 was.

A timeline we researched was significant court cases throughout the decades; stepping stones that established policy and legislation regarding sociopolitical issues. I chose a specific case that I found interest in and I have it presented to you in a video of analysis, opinion, and impact:




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