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4. If and When

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6. NEXT Pot Luck

7. NEXT Are you Okay-ed?

8. NEXT Anybody’s Guess

9. 15 20 25 510 If and When GOIN’ COURTIN’ POT LUCK ARE YOU OKAY-ED? ANYBODY’S GUESS 5 5 5 5 10 15 20 25 20 Team One Team Two Team Three Team Four Team Five Team Six

10. If and when a person might be tried for a single criminal act twice Show Answer

11. What is if it violates both state and federal law? Back to Board

12. Wwhen the Supreme Court adjourns its term Show Answer

13. What is June? Back to Board

14. Written if and when a justice agrees with a majority decision but disagrees with the reasoning behing it Show Answer

15. What is A CONCURRING OPINION? Back to Board

16. Written f and when a justice disagrees with a majority opinion Show Answer

17. What is a DISSENTING OPINION? Back to Board

18. French term which describes how federal judges sit if and when the appeals court sits not in a panel of three, but with all of the judges in the circuit sitting together Show Answer

19. What is en banc? Back to Board

20. An actual situation rather than a hypothetical one and one that may be settled by LEGAL methods Show Answer

21. What is a JUSTICIABLE DISPUTE? Back to Board

22. They review district court decisions, enforce the orders of federal regulatory agencies, but they hear NO testimony and hold NO trials Show Answer

23. What are the U.S. COURTS OF APPEALS? Back to Board

24. It refers to the translation of court decisions ito actual policy that affects the behavior of others; the larger the number of officials whose cooperation is required, the more difficult it is to achieve. Show Answer

25. What is by JUDICIAL IMPLEMENTATION? Back to Board

26. When periods of JUDICIAL ACTIVISM are most likely to occur Show Answer

27. What is when there is a pressing need or problem in society, and the LEGISLATURE and the EXECUTIVE fail to address it over time? Back to Board

28. 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….They SHOULD make new law! Show Answer

29. What is JUDICIAL ACTIVISM? Back to Board

30. Kind of case in which 1.The state is the plaintiff 2.An individual is the plaintiff Show Answer

31. What are: 1.Criminal cases 2.2. civil cases Back to Board

32. A test of IDEOLOGICAL PURITY on a particular issue which an individual must pass before okayed as a SCOTUS nominee Show Answer

33. What is a LITMUS TEST? Back to Board

34. One is CONSTITUTIONAL and the other is LEGISLATIVE Show Answer

35. What are the two types of lower courts which CONGRESS has created? Back to Board

36. An ADVERSARIAL SYSTEM Show Answer

37. What is a system ( like our court system) in which a neutral arena serves as a venue in which two parties present opposing viewpoints before an impartial arbiter? ? Back to Board

38. JUDICIAL PARSIMONY Show Answer

39. What is the practice of deciding a case on the narrowest possible grounds rather than addressing broad constitutional questions? Back to Board

40. The President and the Senate Show Answer

41. Who nominates and confirms federal judges? Back to Board

42. Slang for having your SCOTUS nomination attacked and sunk in the Senate or Senate Judiciary Committee Show Answer

43. What is “BORKED”? Back to Board

44. Two of President George W. Bush nominees currently sitting on the Supreme Court Show Answer

45. Who are Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito? Back to Board

46. 8 + 1 = 9 Show Answer

47. What is the number of ASSOCIATE JUSTICES and CHIEF JUSTICE on SCOTUS? Back to Board

48. Term which refers to the fact that we have separate federal and state court systems Show Answer

49. What is DUAL COURT SYSTEM? Back to Board

50. Federal district court judge’s, appellate cour judge’s, and Supreme Court Justice’s term Show Answer

51. What is life or “GOOD BEHAVIOR”? Back to Board

52. Two justices currently seated on the Court who were nominated by President Barak Obama Show Answer

53. Who are Justices Sonja Sotomayor and Elaina Kagan? Back to Board

54. IMPEACHMENT Show Answer

55. What is how CONGRESS removes any federal judge, including a Supreme Court justice, from office? Back to Board

56. 1.Court of Claims 2.Court of International Trade 3.Tax Court 4.Court of Military Appeals Show Answer

57. What are the legislative courts? Back to Board

58. Show Answer They are set up by Congress for special purposes. Judges serve FIXED TERMS an can be removed without IMPEACHMENT.

59. What are the LEGISLATIVE COURTS and their JUDGES? Back to Board

60. Show Question

61. JEOPARDY: List five key current selection criteria for Supreme Court nominees DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Identify a once popular criterion which is no longer relevant Show Answer 302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321

62. JEOPARDY: 1.Political ideology 2.Party and personal loyalties 3.Judicial experience 4.Race and gender 5.The “LITMUS TEST” DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Geography Back to Board

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