The US Federal Court System: How YOU Can Affect the Courts

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
  • Your guide to how YOU can affect the courts.
    judicialnominat...
    How to Vote in Every State: • Video
    This video was made in collaboration with the great folks at ForwardMT.
    Check them out here: forwardmontana...
    and here: / forwardmontana
    -
    Endscreen: "Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
    creativecommons...
    Background: Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com) CC BY-SA
    -
    Looking for Complexly elsewhere on the internet?
    Twitter: / complexlymedia
    Website: www.complexly.com
    Facebook community: / 165836520916436

Komentáře • 47

  • @cholten99
    @cholten99 Před 6 lety +16

    Even though I'm not American I'm currently reading The Federalist papers and have just got to the part in #78 where Hamilton very strongly states that judges should never be elected. Given the way state judges often compete by promising to hand down harsher sentences in order to get people to vote for them I wish Congress had listened to Hamilton.

    • @ellisartwist
      @ellisartwist Před 6 lety +1

      I'm an american and I feel exactly the same way! Its such a bad idea that I don't think people realize the full implications of.

  • @brentmbutler
    @brentmbutler Před 6 lety +20

    I forgot all about that "How to Vote in Every State" channel... I wonder if there are plans to release updated versions for the 2018 midterms.

  • @nomad_geek
    @nomad_geek Před 6 lety +9

    Dude. This series was informative and funny. So underviewed. Thanks for being awesome.

  • @maskichef
    @maskichef Před 6 lety +2

    I'm not a US citizen. What you are doing here is great. notable.

  • @DJTea
    @DJTea Před 6 lety +9

    This series has been super informative, thank you!

  • @Bram06
    @Bram06 Před 6 lety +2

    Hey Hank, I was wondering if you could add episode numbers to the titles. It would really help navigating

  • @Shardok42
    @Shardok42 Před 6 lety +1

    How is Hank able to create like 80 videos and a dozen podcasts every day!?!?!

  • @verdatum
    @verdatum Před 6 lety +4

    Excellent content (yarrr, content!) However, I would have liked this video to also discuss the possibility to file an amicus brief, either directly, or by interacting with an advocacy group.

  • @kassywilson9276
    @kassywilson9276 Před 3 lety

    I am more impressed with Complexly and Hank Green with every series I come across.

  • @TheTravelVal
    @TheTravelVal Před 6 lety +4

    Really enjoyed this series, thanks for making this!!

  • @Uriel238
    @Uriel238 Před 6 lety +5

    With all due appreciation of the series so far, the recent rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States (Upholding the travel ban, Rejecting the obligation of PSAs to be posted by Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Califorina, and overturning the obligation of employees of unionized companies to financially support their unions -- _whew!_ ) have shown that our Supreme Court does _not_ listen to the people or care about them at least in their 5-4 party-line split rulings, in which minority reports often observe inconsistency by the majority of their alleged legal philosophies.
    The conservative bloc in the Supreme Court has been acting more and more as an ideological bulwark since the aughts, and it is only going to get worse from here.

    • @evelynmcgeary6712
      @evelynmcgeary6712 Před 6 lety

      Which is what this video about what you can do is for! ... lifetime appointments though

    • @nutiketgotc
      @nutiketgotc Před 6 lety

      Which means that we will all be dead by the time there is a chance for anything to get better.

    • @Uriel238
      @Uriel238 Před 6 lety +1

      *nutiketgotc* If all things proceed by normal means, then yes, it's likely that we're going to have a century or so more of conservative ideological rulings coming from the US Supreme court. It's fun however to imagine the kind of political thriller fiction that emerges considering the motivation caused by appointment until death. A citizenship that didn't want to wait that long, and was terrified of such ideology might radicalize and consider changing policy by other means.
      Not that anyone would ever consider violence for political gain in the real world. That would be inconceivable!

    • @armorsmith43
      @armorsmith43 Před 6 lety +2

      Or you could vote for legislators that will write different legislation. Congress is the branch that writes the laws.
      And state legislatures are the ones that set election rules.

    • @Uriel238
      @Uriel238 Před 6 lety +2

      State legislators do not write rules for federal elections.
      And the US Supreme Court decides, often arbitrarily (e.g. via spurious logic) what is _Constitutional_ and it is _very_ hard to amend the Constitution of the United States.
      To cite an example, the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has not firmly established protection from discrimination when prejudice is justified by religion. How many times to we have to establish equal rights in the Constitution before we actually get them?
      The solutions the people are offered through _proper channels_ have been proven time and again ineffective. Which makes for a political climate in which citizens will consider resorting to improper channels, especially when antagonistic efforts to suppress proper channels (e.g. gerrymandering, voter suppression, regulatory capture, et al.) are ubiquitous.

  • @amrmukhtar8951
    @amrmukhtar8951 Před 3 lety

    Even though I'm not American, I've found this series super informative..
    Thanks dude👏

  • @preparation.kaician
    @preparation.kaician Před 6 lety +2

    "...your actual physical talky bits."
    -Hank Green

  • @KevOSMusic
    @KevOSMusic Před 6 lety +1

    Aw but the bald eagle cry would've been so cute.

  • @allison613
    @allison613 Před 6 lety +1

    i just watched all of this series and it's probably my favorite content produced by y'all thus far! reminded me why i keep up with all of your channels just a lil bit

  • @JamesJordanson
    @JamesJordanson Před 6 lety

    If you were trully serious you would make videos on how the internal courts work as well (intra-state circuits) and show the pros and cons of each system

  • @freespiritdamsel
    @freespiritdamsel Před 3 lety

    This is very informative. Should have been made viral prior the Kavanaugh and Barett appointment!

  • @birdsdaword
    @birdsdaword Před 6 lety

    Aaron Persky was recalled. We did it!

  • @6idangle
    @6idangle Před 6 lety

    Interesting funny you guys had this idea I am a law student and I just started a channel doing a similar but different content. More like the specific law behind various issues, covering anti discrimination law, free speech, issues of federalism, the Commerce Clause, procedural due process !!!!!! I think you guys are on to something there isn't enough quality and accessible content on the courts or the actual law on youtube.

  • @Tfin
    @Tfin Před 6 lety

    But... those recent "walkouts" weren't "students speaking out." They were organized by the schools, and students didn't have the option to stay in class.
    That is not what Tinker was about, is it?

  • @whatsbehindthesky
    @whatsbehindthesky Před 4 lety +1

    This was so informative and helpful! Is there a good primer out there for some important court cases everyone should know?

  • @summerrose5739
    @summerrose5739 Před 6 lety

    Amazing series, I am thoroughly educated. Now if only I understood the judiciary system of my own country...

  • @connierobinson1090
    @connierobinson1090 Před 6 lety

    First I’m cutting tomatoes during the entire tomato video, then I’m sprinkling thyme as he uses the word time...this video is MY DESTINY. Time to quite chemistry and go to law school, right?

  • @allanrichardson1468
    @allanrichardson1468 Před 6 lety

    Hank Green: American CZcams's Tom Scott!

  • @rjnkrk420a
    @rjnkrk420a Před 2 lety

    Sir,
    Thank you again for these very useful videos. I am still on active duty and anticipating retiring in 4 years. What can I do now, so I can increase my chance of getting a GS job the next day after I retire? Thank you for your time.

  • @Kram1032
    @Kram1032 Před 6 lety

    JudicalNominations.org is in serious need of an upgrade. It still uses Flash, which is (for good reasons) a pain in the rear in the most common modern browsers.

  • @FesterWerks
    @FesterWerks Před 6 lety

    Great series, Hank! I learned quite a bit.

  • @Teddy143Fresa
    @Teddy143Fresa Před 6 lety

    I value these in a way that doesn't apply to your other videos, in truth I still love them all.
    While a lot to ask and in task could you do something in this vain from the ground up? In the USA here and I'd appreciate an accurate non political record of our history but more than that. Not just an accounting of the Constitution but what is the nature of such a document, the history, leeway and limitations of one. How to draft one ect.
    In my head is a large, dynamic and involved project which is beyond my means, skills and probably understanding.
    So yep, thats all, no biggy. LOL
    Thanks for all that you do, my world is more informed and I'm certain ours if better as a result. Keep on keeping on!

  • @Chrome166
    @Chrome166 Před 6 lety +1

    To be fair, every judge should be a Ravenclaw.

  • @HannahLeeC
    @HannahLeeC Před 6 lety

    Are more videos coming in this series? I hope so!

  • @pattirobrahn9496
    @pattirobrahn9496 Před 6 lety

    Civics: the ongoing resistance. Thanks, Hank ❤️

  • @PoseidonXIII
    @PoseidonXIII Před 6 lety

    vote vote vote!

  • @ljsmooth69
    @ljsmooth69 Před 3 lety +1

    But are voting for the president ain't voting for the president goes to the electee and then they vote

  • @Thomas-er8xg
    @Thomas-er8xg Před 6 lety

    I assume the odds of an Australian version of this great series is low?....

  • @Someone-cr8cj
    @Someone-cr8cj Před 6 lety

    More saturation on the camera part please

  • @ljsmooth69
    @ljsmooth69 Před 3 lety

    Yeah you can run for office as long as you have the money to spend on it.

  • @nutiketgotc
    @nutiketgotc Před 6 lety

    So what you are saying is that when they are wrong there are no consequences and the only thing I can do is vote so that in 20 or 30 years when I'm almost dead I might get justice. But only maybe..

  • @ljsmooth69
    @ljsmooth69 Před 3 lety

    But the truth is we can ask all we want and vote for all we want but the truth is that they can go ahead and pick the other person because it goes to our elected appointee and not actually votes for the presidency or any other branch of government just do our electoral which means even though we vote for somebody and they have the votes from us the people they can still turn around and put the other person on there sorry about really don't matter oh you're voting for president no we've been lied to our votes go to the electric and they decide which vote to put in.