DNA testing

Hello Readers,

Today I am going to talk about a case that was solved with DNA evidence .

In December of 2012 a man broke into a Bobbie Sue's Restaurant  in Arkansas. He stole two jars filled with money that was meant to go to charity and ate some pie. He left the spoon from the pie at the restaurant and that is how they got him.

His picture is below:

A link to where you can find more information is:
http://www.thv11.com/news/article/287310/2/DNA-sample-leads-to-arrest-in-2012-burglary-case

Supreme Court Justices

Hello Readers, 

This is a slideshow of all of the current Supreme Court Justices. The Chief Justice is John G. Roberts,Jr. There are also eight other judges. They are listed below.

Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan.

Male v. Female Judges

Hello Readers,

Today I am going to talk about the number of female judges versus the number of male judges.

There have been an way more male judges than female judges. 108 out of the 112 judges have been male. Leaving only 4 female judges.

The chart below shows the number of males versus females.

Poll about Tinker v Des Moines

Hello Readers,

Today I am going to be talking about the case of Tinker v. Des Moines.  This case was about a school that said that students would not be allowed to wear arm bands to voice their opinions against the Vietnam war. The kids were ended up being suspended for a couple of weeks for not removing their arm bands.

The kids said that it violated their First Amendment right to free speech and the right to protest the war.

The principal said that it would disrupt their learning and the learning of other students around.  

Two other cases that were similar was Schenck v. United States where the Supreme Court said that an individual could be punished for distributing anti WW1 propaganda and Thornhill v.Alabama where the Supreme court said protesting was an acceptable form of free speech.

The Supreme Court ended up ruling that the students had the right to wear the arm bands as a right to protest.

How to tie a tie

Step one get a tie.

Step two put the tie around your neck with the wide side on your right side.

Step three cross the wide end of your tie over the narrow end.

Step four bring the wide end under the narrow and up  through the center.

Step 5 bring the wide end over to the right.

Step 6 go around the narrow end and pull it to the left.

Step 7 bring the wide end up through the center.

Step 8 bring the wide end under the knot to the right.

Step 9 bring the wide part over the knot to the left.

Step 10 bring the wide part under the narrow part into the center.

Step 11 bring the wide end around and then through the loop.

Step 12 pull the narrow end to tighten the knot and move the knot to the center of your collar.

Interview with Kyle

Kyle Strout is the creator of the blog site My First Indie FPS.

"My favorite thing about my website is the high number of views that I have received in a short amount of time'" said Kyle.

"I would like to continue posting until I have finished the game and shortly after to increase the number of people who will play my game," said Kyle.

"I would like to add video to my blog because I already have multiple picture and audio files," said Kyle.

"I love to play video games. I spend most of my free time playing video games

The above picture is a picture of Kyle. He is 17-years-old and his hometown is Saco, Maine.

His website can be found at the link below

My First Indie

Review of New York Times Co. v. United States

Hello Readers,

Today I'm going to be giving my opinion on the case of New York Times v. United States. This case took place in 1971, as stated in my previous post. I disagree with this ruling.

The First Amendment should not allow people to reveal information that is top secret and isn't meant for the public. I believe that the government deserves a certain amount of privacy in order to secure the safety of people. 

Edward Snowden did the same type of thing. He revealed top secret information and now he is considered a criminal. I think that it should have been the same ruling. 

He stole information that could have possibly endangered people's lives and he should be charged and tried as a traitor. As should the people who helped steal this info for the New York Times.

Chief Justice Warren E Burger said, "the imperative of a free and unfettered press comes into collision with another imperative, the effective functioning of a complex modern government". 

The man who stole the documents, Daniel Ellsburg, was only found innocent because of misconduct by the government. So if what he did was wrong and illegal why is the New York Times allowed to post this information? Because it could have endangered thousands of troops that were fighting in the war.

Feel free to comment with you opinions.

New York TIme Co. v. United States

Hello Readers,
Today I am going to discuss the case of NewYork Times Co. v. United States. The New York Times had received what are famously known as Pentagon Papers. Their official name of the papers was “History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Viet Nam Policy”.These papers came out when the nation was deeply divided on the war in Vietnam. 
The Government called upon the courts to try and stop the publishing of these papers by having the New York district court order a temporary injunction order to not publish these papers at this time. So the New York Times took it a step further and brought it to the Supreme Court and said that the injunction violated the First Amendment. The New York Times said that the First Amendment guaranteed them the right to print these documents and that the American people had the right to know. While the American Government said that the First Amendment was not an absolute freedom especially when the security of America and it citizens are involved.
The Supreme Court ended up ruling 6-3 in favor of The New York Times. Justice Black said it was, “unfortunate in his view that some of my Brethren [fellow justices] are apparently willing to hold that the publication of news may sometimes be enjoined. Such a holding,” he wrote, “would make a shambles of the First Amendment.”

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Hello readers,
I would like to start with some of the most controversial issues and cases that the Supreme Court has covered. To start off with I would like to talk about the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. While this is a very controversial topic I believe that it is very important because it brought a lot of attention to slavery and the way that African Americans were treated. In 1857, after 11 years of court battles, Dred Scott's case was brought before the Supreme Court. He was suing for his and his wife's freedom because they had stayed in Wisconsin for an extended period of time, which was a free territory. Many people thought that they would be released because of previous court cases in the cast. But, as it happened, most of the judges on the Supreme Court owned slaves or had family members who owned slaves. Chief Justice  Roger B. Taney said that the framers of the constitution believed that African Americans"had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it." He said that African Americans were not included under the "all men are created equal".  The vote was split 7-2 and was decided on March 6, 1857

Introduction

Hello readers,
My name is Cameron and I am a high school student at Thornton Academy. I am interested in one day pursuing a career as a lawyer. So I made this blog so that I can share current events and passed events going on in the Supreme Court. I hope that you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it.

Sincerely,
Cameron Pelkey