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the unelected branch that can tell the elected ones to sit down
means The branch of government made up of courts and judges, whose job is to interpret laws and settle disputes.
from From Latin 'iudiciarius,' 'pertaining to courts of justice,' built on 'iudicium' (a judgment or trial) and ultimately 'iudex' — a judge — itself a fusion of 'ius' (law, right) and a root meaning 'to say' or 'point out.' So a judge is, at the root, one who 'speaks the law.' English borrowed the term in the 1500s, and the courtroom sense of who gets to pronounce that law has been argued over ever since.
- life tenure
- US federal judges serve until death or retirement
- first power grab
- Marbury v. Madison invented judicial review in 1803
- no army
- courts rely entirely on others obeying their rulings
- robes
- black became standard only after Marshall's plain example
- oldest court
- England's courts predate Parliament by centuries
us supreme court — 9 justices interpreting the us constitution since 1789
international court of justice — un's principal judicial organ at the hague, 15 judges settling disputes between nations
indian supreme court — chief justice plus 33 judges in new delhi handling constitutional and civil disputes since 1950