1. The Judicial Branch Review
Unit 5

2. How does the President have influence over the Supreme Court?

3. Appointment of judges

4. What percentage of all criminal cases are settled by plea bargain?

5. 97% (so almost all of them)

6. The case that forever tied the issue of slavery to states’ rights.

7. Dred Scott v Sanford

8. Which President in the last 55 years did not appoint a Supreme Court justice?

9. Jimmy Carter

10. Which President appointed the most Supreme Court justices?

11. FDR

12. This type of opinion is when the justice agrees with the majority opinion, but for a different reason.

13. Concurring opinion

14. This case overturned Plessy v Ferguson

15. Brown v Board of Education

16. True or False? Most Supreme Court cases come to the court from lesser courts.

17. True

18. This presidential appointee is responsible for arguing the government’s case before the SCOTUS, and sets the court’s agenda.

19. Solicitor General

20. There are five major factors that influence the decisions of the SCOTUS. List one of them.

21. Existing laws Justice interactions with each other Social forces/ public Congress/ President Personal views

22. List the four major categories of crime.

23. Personal Property Inchoate Statutory

24. Which category of crime involves such things as theft, robbery, or embezzlement?

25. Property

26. The SCOTUS ruled that the 14th Amendment guaranteed this 6th Amendment right to all levels of the judicial system.

27. Right to counsel

28. The Constitution established the SCOTUS, but who sets the number of justices as well as the number of federal courts?

29. Congress

30. The power to confirm (or approve) a presidential appointee for a federal judge position resides with?

31. Senate

32. This case changed law enforcement policies and procedures nationwide.

33. Miranda v Arizona

34. A legal argument set forth in a written statement is called a _____.

35. Brief

36. Any decision by the Supreme Court sets a ____, which influeces any future cases dealing with that same topic.

37. Precedent

38. What is a control of power the Senate has over the Supreme Court?

39. Confirmation Power (approving the appointment)

40. Identify the four steps of the procedure a case goes through once the SCOTUS agrees to hear the case.

41. Lawyers submit briefs Oral argument Justices debate the case Court issues opinion

42. A written decision by the court is called a(n) _____.

43. Opinion

44. What are the two classifications of crimes?

45. Felony Misdemeanor

46. Out of the four major categories of crimes, this one involves such things as assault, battery, murder, and kidnapping.

47. Personal

48. Out of the four major categories of crimes, this one involves such things as DUI and contributing to a minor.

49. Statutory

50. Out of the four major categories of crimes, this one involves such things as attempted murder or conspiracy to commit murder.

51. Inchoate

52. Latin for “friend of the court”

53. Amicus curiae

54. Latin for “let the decision stand”

55. Stare decisis

56. An order from the Supreme Court for records/ a written plea for the SCOTUS to hear a case

57. Writ of certiorari

58. This is a removal from a case due to a conflict of interest

59. Recuse

60. The deciding vote is a case that would break a tie.

61. Swing vote

62. Legislating from the bench

63. Judicial activism

64. A serious crime

65. Felony

66. Theory of interpretation that encourages judges to limit their power and follow the Constitution strictly when deciding cases

67. Judicial restraint

68. Minor crimes

69. Misdemeanor

70. Opinion of judges on the opposing side of a case being determined

71. Dissenting opinion

72. This is the opinion if 5 out of the 9 judges agree to it.

73. Majority opinion

74. Type of opinion where all the judges vote the same way

75. Unanimous opinion

76. The number of judges needed to hear and decide a case in the federal appellate court.

77. 3

78. The number of justices needed to reach a majority opinion on a case.

79. 5

80. The number of justices needed to agree to hear a case at the Supreme Court.

81. 4

82. The number of justices needed to be present in the Wednesday and Friday meeting to make a decision on a case

83. 6

84. The number of judges needed in a district court to hear a case

85. 1

86. The authority to hear certain cases

87. Jurisdiction

88. Precedent for judicial review (established judicial review)

89. Marbury v Madison

90. Justices who traveled from town to town to hear cases in the old west

91. Riding the circuit

92. The first African American Supreme Court justice.

93. Thomas Goodall

94. The first female Supreme Court justice

95. Sandra Day O’Connor