It moved to Philadelphia the next year, when the city became the temporary capital. in 1801, the Court moved to the District of Columbia, where it has remained. The present Supreme Court building is located in Washington D.C., across the street from the capitol mans adjacent to the Library of Congress. It was completed in 1935. In addition to the actual courtroom, the Supreme Court building contains the offices of the chief justice and associates justices: their law clerks, law libraries, and administrative staffs. The Supreme Courts annual term begins on the first Monday, in October and usually concludes in late June. The current practice of the Court is to hear oral arguments only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.
Testing the limits of Power.
The Constitution played a unique role in the Supreme Court's development: ,It allocated and regulated power within the federal government, divided power between the federal and state governments, and restricted the power of the federal and state governments operation was unclear. Most governmental conflicts involving the Constitution eventually became lawsuits that t found their way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court took on more and more of conflicts. They ranged from disputes between federal and state governments over the division power to disputes between two parties claiming rights under state law when one party relied on the Constitution to support its case.
These cases were significant because they indicated how other governmental institutions were beginning to depend on the Supreme Court to resolve their conflicts.
Regulating Business.
During the Civil War years the Supreme Court reached a low point in public esteem, primarily because of the Dred Scott decision and the fact that four of the Supreme Court justices came from the South. After the Civil War the Supreme Court's power began to grow again. In 1868, the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, which contained broad restrictions prohibiting them from depriving anyone of the "equal protection of the laws" or the "life, liberty or property without due process of law".