Diversity Event

             For my Diversity Event Option I chose option #3, “How Has the Supreme Court Reshaped American Law?” This event was very interesting because the man who spoke to us was Tom Goldstein, a Harvard University professor and a man greatly involved with the law in many ways. I also chose this diversity event specifically because it also met the requirements for my Philosophy 230 classes extra credit option. (2 birds with 1 stone!)

            Tom told us about many different things happening within the Supreme Court today such as Obama care, continued racism in the United States, and laws dealing with abortion. He said that Obama care was only passed because one Supreme Court justice changed his mind after he had decided what he was going to vote. He told us to think about the “what ifs” of it not happening and how that would impact our current society. He also told us about the different laws being regulated more in the law enforcement areas of today’s society.

            He also told us about the difficulties in the law enforcement area because of continued racism claims due to arrests for drug dealing. This factor has risen to the Supreme Court more frequently. Abortion is the same way because many people think it is a Right to decide on whether to abort their own child or not. The state of the fetus is also a concern. If the fetus is far enough along many people believe that abortion is murder in that sense.

            I think our current court systems still have a long ways to go before they get these problems dealt with but when they finally get those problems figured out new problems will already have risen.