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Crash Course Government and Politics
Supreme Court Procedures: Crash Course Government #20
Season 1
Episode 20
This week Craig Benzine talks about what happens when a case makes it to the Supreme Court of the United States (or the SCOTUS). We talk about how to petition to get your case heard, how written arguments, or briefs, are made, what actually happens on the courtroom floor, and of course the variety of ways the SCOTUS issues opinions on cases.
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This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States.
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So today Craig is going to look at political ideology in America.
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Craig explores where our political opinions come from.
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We start our look into why certain policies are made.
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We wrap this discussion up with the rather controversial topic of affirmative action.
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All about the most important part of the Constitution - the Fourteenth Amendment.
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