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Article: Time trip.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- November 19, 2004
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Every Supreme Court session starts the same way. As the justices enter the gold-trimmed courtroom, the Court marshal booms: "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting."
The marshal doesn't have to ask twice. When the Supreme Court talks, everyone listens because its justices have one of the most important jobs in the United States--interpreting the Constitution and making Sure that the government does not violate it in any way.
The Supreme Court heads the judicial branch of the U.S. government and holds the ...