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JEOPARDY #2 – Ch. 16
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The Supremes If and WhenGoin’ Courtin’ POT LUCK Are you Okay-ed? Anybody’s Guess! 100 200 300 400 500
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The Supremes - 100 Y, they are the only xx’s on the Court!
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The Supremes - 100 Who are Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
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The Supremes - 200 Supreme who won the “race” for a seat and his replacement
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The Supremes - 200 Who are Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas?
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The Supremes - 300 Since 1917, it’s been the beginning of their term
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The Supremes - 300 What is the 1 st Monday in October?
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The Supremes - 400 Nickname for the Supreme Court building
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The Supremes - 400 What is the Marble Temple?
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The Supremes - 500 Current Chief Justice and Chief whom he replaced
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The Supremes - 500 Who are Roberts and Rehnquist?
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If and When - 100 If and when a person might be tried for a single criminal act twice
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If and When - 100 What is if and when it violates both state and federal law?
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If and When - 200 When the Supreme Court adjourns its term
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If and When - 200 What is June?
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If and When - 300 Written if and when a justice agrees with a majority decision but disagrees with the reasoning behind it
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If and When - 300 What is a concurring opinion?
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If and When - 400 Written if and when a justice disagrees with a majority opinion
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If and When - 400 What is a dissenting opinion?
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If and When - 500 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
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If and When - 500 What is en banc?
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 100 An actual situation rather than a hypothetical one and one that may be settled by legal methods
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 100 What is a justiciable dispute?
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 200 They review district court decisions, enforce the orders of federal regulatory agencies, but thy hear no testimony and hold no trials
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 200 What are the U.S. Courts of Appeal?
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 300 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
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 300 What is judicial implementation?
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 400 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
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 400 What is judicial activism?
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 500 When there is a pressing need or problem in the society, and the legislature and the executive fail to address it
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Goin’ Courtin’ - 500 When are periods of judicial activism most likely to occur?
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Pot Luck - 100 Kind of case in which the state is the plaintiff; kind in which an individual is the plaintiff
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Pot Luck - 100 What are criminal and civil cases?
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Pot Luck - 200 A test of ideological purity on a particular issue which an individual must pass before okayed as a Supreme Court nominee
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Pot Luck - 200 What is a “Litmus Test”?
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Pot Luck - 300 Constitutional and legislative
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Pot Luck - 300 What are the two general types of lower courts Congress has created?
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Pot Luck - 400 A system (like our court system) in which a neutral arena in which two parties present opposing viewpoints before an impartial arbiter
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Pot Luck - 400 Who is an adversarial system?
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Pot Luck - 500 Judicial parsimony
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Pot Luck - 500 What is deciding a case on the narrowest possible grounds rather than addressing broad constitutional questions
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Are you Okay-ed? - 100 President and Senate
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Are you Okay-ed? - 100 Nominates and confirms federal judges?
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Are you Okay-ed? - 200 1.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”
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Are you Okay-ed? - 200 What are current selection criteria for Supreme Court nominees?
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Are you Okay-ed? - 300 Slang for having had your Supreme Court nomination attacked and sunk in the Senate
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Are you Okay-ed? - 300 What is the “borked”?
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Are you Okay-ed? - 400 2 George W. Bush nominees currently sitting on the Supreme Court
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Are you Okay-ed? - 400 Who are Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito?
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Are you Okay-ed? - 500 Bush’s personal counsel whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate
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Are you Okay-ed? - 500 Who is Harriet Myers?
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Anybody’s Guess - 100 8 + 1 = 9
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Anybody’s Guess - 100 What is the # of associate justices + the chief justice = the Supreme Court?
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Anybody’s Guess - 200 Term which refers to the fact that we have separate federal and state courts
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Anybody’s Guess - 200 What is dual court system?
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Anybody’s Guess - 300 Federal district court judge’s, appellate court judge’s, and Supreme Court justice’s term
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Anybody’s Guess - 300 What is “good behavior”?
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Anybody’s Guess - 400 impeachment
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Anybody’s Guess - 400 What is the way Congress can put a federal judge out of office?
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Anybody’s Guess - 500 Court of Claims Court of International Trade Tax Court Court of Military Appeals
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Anybody’s Guess - 500 What are the legislative courts (set up by Congress for special purposes; judges serve fixed terms and can be removed without impeachment)?
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