What is the role of the U.S.Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court has a special role to play in the United States system of government. The Constitution gives it the power to check, if necessary, the actions of the President and Congress. It can tell a President that his actions are not allowed by the Constitution. It can tell Congress that a law it passed violated the U.S. Constitution and is, therefore, no longer a law. It can also tell the government of a state that one of its laws breaks a rule in the Constitution. The Supreme Court is the final judge in all cases involving laws of Congress, and the highest law of all — the Constitution. The Supreme Court, however, is far from all-powerful. Its power is limited by the other two branches of government. The President nominates justices to the court. The Senate must vote its approval of the nominations. The whole Congress also has great power over the lower courts in the federal system. District and appeals courts are created by acts of Congress. These courts may be abolished if Congress wishes it. The Supreme Court is like a referee on a football field. The Congress, the President, the state police, and other government officials are the players. Some can pass laws, and others can enforce laws. But all exercise power within certain boundaries. These boundaries are set by the Constitution. As the "referee" in the U.S. system of government, it is the Supreme Court's job to say when government officials step out-of-bounds.
In the US, why is the Supreme Court not allowed to impeach the President?
Others answer the legal question as to why impeachment is a Legislative, not a Judiciary, responsibility.However, there is one additional fact here: impeachment is a political act, not a legal act.Impeachment is removal from office, not conviction of a crime. Being impeached does not come with any civil or criminal penalties; it merely removes the person from the office they hold. You’ll note that impeachment can be used on ANY appointed or elected government official int he Judiciary or Executive Branches - the President, the V.P, any judge, cabinet member, etc.As such, impeachment is not the same as being convicted of a crime, and the standard by which impeachment measures unfitness for serving is radically different than the standard for criminal (or even civil) guilt.In short, impeachement is a political act designed to oust people whom the rest of the government considers grossly unable to serve, for whatever reason. Which is why the Legislative Branch is given this power, being the representatives of the people, who are the only people empowered to make such a judgement. The Judiciary Branch is concerned with interpreting the law, and an impeachment is NOT such a job. There is no law to interpret or judge here in impeachment.
If the President of USA is impeached, do the Supreme Court picks stay on the bench?
Yes. Everything that president did stays. All that happens is he is no longer president. Congress still would've passed whatever legislation or approved any appointments. So they stay until they resign, die, or get impeached themselves. Impeaching the president is not hitting “undo” on their presidency. It's basically saying “Next!” With their Vice President (who they picked) being next.
Can a president be impeached for crimes committed before becoming president?
It looks to me as if my answer was reclassified under a different question.There really are no criteria for impeachment. All you need is to get the appropriate number of votes in Congress. The standard is high crimes and misdemeanors, but Congress gets to decide what those are and when they count. Thus for example, Congress seems to have thought that marital infidelity was an impeachable offense, which they dressed up under charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about marital infidelity, something which almost everybody who does it does.Eventually the lies cost Clinton his law license, but he doesn't really need it. In reality, Clinton was impeached because Congress disapproved of his policies, but since Andrew Jackson, that has not been an acceptable official ground for a bill of indictment for impeachment. The short version is, and impeachable offense is whatever Congress says it is.It is probably worth remarking that although perjury and obstruction are crimes, they are almost certainly not the kind of "high crimes and misdemeanors” that the framers had in mind with the impeachment clause, although nobody knows for sure what they meant.The Supreme Court would almost certainly not get involved in an impeachment proceeding because that is what is called a “political question” and the Supreme Court should deem itself to lack jurisdiction to intervene in the regulatory affairs of other coordinate branches of the government textually delegated on the face of the constitution to those branches, in this case the legislature.Of course, I thought that the Supreme Court would not get involved in the dispute about how to count votes in the 2000 election. It had a bad conscience about doing so, however, because it expressly labeled Bush v. Gore as a non-precedential opinion that could not be cited as authority in any other case.So if Congress can decide that cheating and lying about it is a high crime and misdemeanor where the of impeachment, the Supreme Court might well decide that it could reverse a senatorial impeachment determination. And it is not obvious that double jeopardy attaches in such a determination, so it might reverse it either way. We are playing here at the wilder fringes of constitutional law, where the rules are what you can get away with.
What are some Supreme court limits when it comes to power?
Do you mean limits on the Supreme Court itself, or limits that the Supreme Court imposes? Limitations on the power of the Supreme Court: Justices of the Supreme Court must be appointed by the President and then confirmed by the Senate. If a justice on the bench engages in "bad behavior", he or she may be impeached. Also, Supreme Court rulings can be limited in their power (despite the Supreme Court being the law of the land) if Congress passes laws that affect the outcome of the decisions of the Supreme Court. In addition, Supreme Court rulings are not always well enforced, and in some parts of the country, rulings may be ignored (consider the "moment of silence" in schools that is technically not allowed), as well as the length of time it took for desegregation to take place in the South following the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education). Limits that the Supreme Court imposes: The Supreme Court has the power of judicial review, as established by the case Marbury v. Madison. Judicial review means that the Court is the ultimate law of the land. the Supreme Court has the power to overturn acts of Congress that it deems unconstitutional, as well as declare presidential acts (such as executive orders) invalid if they violate the Constitution. Because the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the Constitution, this gives it a certain amount of power over both the legislative and executive branches.
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What are the limits on the powers of the president?
Are you referring to the US president or the President of India? I don't know about India, but in the US there are only five powers specified in the constitution: 1. Veto legislation passed by Congress 2. Command the armed forces 3. Pardon convicted criminals 4. Negotiate treaties (ratified by 2/3 of Congress) 5. Nominate Supreme Court justices, other federal judges, ambassadors and other councilors.