Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 11, 2009 Job opening, experience required: U.S. Supreme Court justiceLook for news and opinion coverage about potential nominees for the vacancy. List qualifications that are important for the president to consider.
Reports on courts and other legal topics involve your community, county and state. Find one on a subject of interest and summarize it for discussion.
Lawyers' presentations to the Supreme Court are open to journalists, but not to cameras. Can you think of other anything else covered in newspapers, but not with photos or video?
Just a few months after starting his new job, President Obama is considering a decision with an impact that could last for decades. He'll nominate his first U.S. Supreme Court justice this spring or summer, replacing one -- David Souter -- who decided to retire. The vacancy on America's top court fuels lots of guessing and unsolicited advice about who should get the lifetime job, which pays $208,100 a year.
The court's chief justice (John Roberts since 2005) and eight associate justices are nominated by the president, confirmed by a majority of senators after a hearing, and can serve as long as they want and are healthy.
Supreme Court justices consider the trickiest cases appealed from two lower levels of federal courts -- those involving constitutional questions about privacy, civil rights, government powers, police actions, First Amendment freedoms, criminal punishment. President says: "I will seek someone with a sharp and independent mind, and a record of excellence and integrity." Justice says: "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. I don't say it should be 50-50. It could be 60 percent men, 40 percent women -- or the other way around. It shouldn't be that women are the exception." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Senator says: "I would like to see more people [on the Supreme Court] from outside the judicial monastery -- somebody who has had some real-life experience, not just as a judge." -- Sen. Patrick Leahy, chair of the Judiciary Committee that will hold the confirmation hearings Front Page Talking Points is written by
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