Question

although the supreme court functions primarily as an appellate court, it is the courts of original juisdiction in certain kinds of cases. what are those?

Answer 1

Article III, Section II, US Constitution:

The trial of all wrongdoings, aside from in instances of impeachment, will be by jury; and such preliminary will be held in the state where the said wrongdoings will have been submitted; yet when not conferred inside any express, the preliminary will be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed