Civics With Steve

Read this article about drug testing in a public high school.

Then, watch this video from the ACLU about the case.

Here is some additional background information about the case and the Fourth Amendment.

Here are some precedent cases to explore. Lower court cases are not binding on the Supreme Court, but Justices are welcome to consider the lower court's arguments.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

As we have discussed, the process for getting on the Supreme Court is to be nominated by the President and confirmed by a majority vote in the Senate after the Senate Judiciary Committee holds confirmation hearings to learn about the nominee's qualifications.

Once seated, a Justice serves for life, unless he or she is impeached. Only one justice, Samuel Chase, was ever impeached by the House of Representatives. That happened in 1804, but Justice Chase was not convicted by the Senate, so he stayed on the bench until he died in 1811.

Not that "impeach" means to accuse -- to be removed from a position, an official must be impeached and convicted. For instance, President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998, but acquitted in early 1999.

In the 1960s, some people in the South wanted to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren, but that never happened. Warren was one of the few Supreme Court Justices not to be a judge before being appointed to serve on the Supreme Court (he was Governor of California when he was nominated to the Court).


Note: While I was looking up the link to the Senate Judiciary Committee, I foung this hearing the Judiciary Committee just held about the Darfur genocide.