Judicial review is where the Supreme Court of the United states has the power to review actions that are taken by the Legislative branch and the execute branch and they also decide whether those actions are legal under the constitution. The Supreme court can nullify and invalidate an action if it is unconstitutional. This gives the supreme court equal power with other branches of the government such as executive and legislative. The court did not have this power when the constitution was created. It was created through the case of Marbury vs Madison in 1803. The supreme court was appointed to this case because President John Adams had just lost his reelection to Thomas Jefferson so right before new President Jefferson assumed office Mr. Adams…show more content… The Santa Clara County v. Pacific Railroad diluted the 14th amendment because it would consider corporations as a person or entity and gave corporations the same rights as people. The case of Cruikshank sullied the 14th amendment because the Supreme court refused to charge Cruikshank of any wrong doing. The supreme court got involved in this case because Cruikshank’s home state was Louisiana and he also worked for the state, so Louisiana had no desire to jail Cruikshank for massacring and torturing African Americans. So, the big letdown was when the Supreme Court ruled that there wasn’t any way for them to enforce the 14th amendment because Cruikshank hadn’t received orders from the state to murder African Americans. The supreme courts response to the Fuhrman v. Georgia case is like Cruikshank’s because in the findings of the Baldus study they decided that the death penalty was not applied in a racist manner and can only apply if the State says they are applying the death penalty in a racist manner. The supreme courts conclusion in Bostick greatly strengthened police power because it allowed police officers to perform consent searchers around the country. Bostick’s case was about officers boarding a bus that Bostick was taking. They were conducting a search for drugs and asked Bostick if he would consent to a search in which he said yes. They found cocaine in his luggage and it went to a trial. The state of Florida said that the arrest was not valid and tried to release Bostick until the Supreme court got involved and said his arrest was valid. This lead to other things like Stop and frisk which was going on in NYC. In Robinette v. Ohio case the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision also strengthened the power of police like Bostick’s case because Robinette was stopped for different reason than he was arrested for. Robinette was driving his car and was pulled over for a
