What do you think of the Supreme Court?

When I think of how unfair many things are in the world, I wonder to myself, “How can you fight back? How do you stand up for yourself in this society?” My mind brings me to the courts. But you need purchasing power to truly voice your opinion. That realization is a flaw in the system. When many people who need to utilize the courts, do not have the funds to do so, then things will not operate fairly. People will not be treated equally like our forefathers had envisioned. I think that the Supreme Court, like many other legal entities or systems, has the potential to be extremely beneficial or harmful to our society. To start, our legal system and laws are very complex and I believe it is impossible for one person alone to contain and contemplate the knowledge of law in its entirety. Also, our decisions of what we allow ourselves to do or restrict ourselves from doing when we first formulate our laws, can have unseen consequences. It is the job of the court to follow these concepts and ideas through to the end and to identify and work out conflicts in the system. The Supreme Court ends up being the composed super brain of our nation’s opinions so it should accurately represent our nation’s values and beliefs. Equality on the Supreme Court is something that I am currently in favor of, but I am not sure if it would work properly when taken to an extreme. There are only nine seats and how could you possibly mirror the American population into nine individuals? So far, we have had mostly older white males as Supreme Court Justices since the courts conception, which does not represent America’s population. Further down this train of thought, I come to the conclusion that a Supreme Court Justice gets the final say in this country. Their interpretation of our Constitution and Bill of Rights is what decides how our laws work together in the end. So if you really want to change things, you have to become a member of the Supreme Court. But you have to go to college, which requires a hefty amount of money. So basically, without money, you don’t get to be a Supreme Court Justice, and you don’t get to take all of your grievances to court to be examined under an un-biased eye as a citizen either. The concept of the final, tip-top mediator of the land is great when you are writing down the rules of the game, I mean, what sport doesn’t have a referee of some type? But what if there is something else that affects the purity of that referee? There are factors that change the way things are “supposed” to work. That is why we must thrive to have a Supreme Court that truly makes a fair decision based off of multiple perspectives.