The Constitution limits the amount of cases that the Supreme Court is authorized to review and the Courts duty is limited to only deciding specific cases. They will not give any advisory opinions during the process of selecting a case for review and must practice considerable judgment in deciding which of the cases they will be hearing. There are over 7,000 civil and criminal cases filed to the Supreme Court each year from state and federal courts all over the country.(Exploring constitutional conflicts," ) However, the case must involve an issue of federal law or fall within the jurisdiction of federal courts in order for the Supreme Court to actually hear a case. The Supreme Court will only hear around 80 of the petitions sent for review to the them, even though they may...