JEOPARDY #2 – Ch. 16
The Supremes If and WhenGoin’ Courtin’ POT LUCK Are you Okay-ed? Anybody’s Guess!
The Supremes Y, they are the only xx’s on the Court!
The Supremes Who are Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The Supremes Supreme who won the “race” for a seat and his replacement
The Supremes Who are Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas?
The Supremes Since 1917, it’s been the beginning of their term
The Supremes What is the 1 st Monday in October?
The Supremes Nickname for the Supreme Court building
The Supremes What is the Marble Temple?
The Supremes Current Chief Justice and Chief whom he replaced
The Supremes Who are Roberts and Rehnquist?
If and When If and when a person might be tried for a single criminal act twice
If and When What is if and when it violates both state and federal law?
If and When When the Supreme Court adjourns its term
If and When What is June?
If and When Written if and when a justice agrees with a majority decision but disagrees with the reasoning behind it
If and When What is a concurring opinion?
If and When Written if and when a justice disagrees with a majority opinion
If and When What is a dissenting opinion?
If and When French term which describes how they sit if and when the appeals court sits not in panels of 3, but with all of the justices in the circuit sitting together
If and When What is en banc?
Goin’ Courtin’ An actual situation rather than a hypothetical one and one that may be settled by legal methods
Goin’ Courtin’ What is a justiciable dispute?
Goin’ Courtin’ They review district court decisions, enforce the orders of federal regulatory agencies, but thy hear no testimony and hold no trials
Goin’ Courtin’ What are the U.S. Courts of Appeal?
Goin’ Courtin’ It refers to the translation of court decisions into actual policy that affects the behavior of others; the larger the number of officials whose cooperation in required, the more difficult it is to achieve
Goin’ Courtin’ What is judicial implementation?
Goin’ Courtin’ The philosophy which holds that the federal courts must correct injustices that the other branches do not, thus, judges should make policy decisions and interpret the Constitution in new ways
Goin’ Courtin’ What is judicial activism?
Goin’ Courtin’ When there is a pressing need or problem in the society, and the legislature and the executive fail to address it
Goin’ Courtin’ When are periods of judicial activism most likely to occur?
Pot Luck Kind of case in which the state is the plaintiff; kind in which an individual is the plaintiff
Pot Luck What are criminal and civil cases?
Pot Luck A test of ideological purity on a particular issue which an individual must pass before okayed as a Supreme Court nominee
Pot Luck What is a “Litmus Test”?
Pot Luck Constitutional and legislative
Pot Luck What are the two general types of lower courts Congress has created?
Pot Luck A system (like our court system) in which a neutral arena in which two parties present opposing viewpoints before an impartial arbiter
Pot Luck Who is an adversarial system?
Pot Luck Judicial parsimony
Pot Luck What is deciding a case on the narrowest possible grounds rather than addressing broad constitutional questions
Are you Okay-ed? President and Senate
Are you Okay-ed? Nominates and confirms federal judges?
Are you Okay-ed? Political ideologyPolitical ideology 2.Party and personal loyaltiesParty and personal loyalties 3.Judicial experienceJudicial experience 4.Race and genderRace and gender 5.The “litmus test”The “litmus test”
Are you Okay-ed? What are current selection criteria for Supreme Court nominees?
Are you Okay-ed? Slang for having had your Supreme Court nomination attacked and sunk in the Senate
Are you Okay-ed? What is the “borked”?
Are you Okay-ed? George W. Bush nominees currently sitting on the Supreme Court
Are you Okay-ed? Who are Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito?
Are you Okay-ed? Bush’s personal counsel whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate
Are you Okay-ed? Who is Harriet Myers?
Anybody’s Guess = 9
Anybody’s Guess What is the # of associate justices + the chief justice = the Supreme Court?
Anybody’s Guess Term which refers to the fact that we have separate federal and state courts
Anybody’s Guess What is dual court system?
Anybody’s Guess Federal district court judge’s, appellate court judge’s, and Supreme Court justice’s term
Anybody’s Guess What is “good behavior”?
Anybody’s Guess impeachment
Anybody’s Guess What is the way Congress can put a federal judge out of office?
Anybody’s Guess Court of Claims Court of International Trade Tax Court Court of Military Appeals
Anybody’s Guess What are the legislative courts (set up by Congress for special purposes; judges serve fixed terms and can be removed without impeachment)?