How Congress Checks the Supreme Court: •Senate approves federal judges, including Supreme Court justices (Advise and Consent Clause) •Impeachment power (House) •Trial of impeachments (Senate) •Power to initiate constitutional amendments (to undo supreme court decisions) •Power to set courts inferior to the Supreme Court •Power to set jurisdiction of courts (they can tell a court that they can not hear a case on a certain topic, which includes changing the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court) •Power to alter the size of the Supreme Court (if the size is drastically increased the President may select all the new justices and change the sway of power)
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:05:40 +0000
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