jeopardy #2 – ch. 16

JEOPARDY#2 – Ch. 16

The Supremes

If and When Goin’

Courtin’

POT

LUCK

Are you Okay-ed?

Anybody’s Guess!

100 100 100 100 100 100

200 200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500 500 500 500

The Supremes - 100

Y, they are the only xx’s on the Court!

The Supremes - 100

Who are Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

The Supremes - 200

Supreme who won the “race” for a seat and his replacement

The Supremes - 200

Who are Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas?

The Supremes - 300

Since 1917, it’s been the beginning of their term

The Supremes - 300

What is the 1st Monday in October?

The Supremes - 400

Nickname for the Supreme Court building

The Supremes - 400

What is the Marble Temple?

The Supremes - 500

Current Chief Justice and Chief whom he replaced

The Supremes - 500

Who are Roberts and Rehnquist?

If and When - 100

If and when a person might be tried for a single criminal act

twice

If and When - 100

What is if and when it violates both state and federal law?

If and When - 200

When the Supreme Court adjourns its term

If and When - 200

What is June?

If and When - 300

Written if and when a justice agrees with a majority decision

but disagrees with the reasoning behind it

If and When - 300

What is a concurring opinion?

If and When - 400

Written if and when a justice disagrees with a majority

opinion

If and When - 400

What is a dissenting opinion?

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

If and When - 500

What is en banc?

Goin’ Courtin’ - 100

An actual situation rather than a hypothetical one and one that

may be settled by legal methods

Goin’ Courtin’ - 100

What is a justiciable dispute?

Goin’ Courtin’ - 200

They review district court decisions, enforce the orders

of federal regulatory agencies, but thy hear no testimony and

hold no trials

Goin’ Courtin’ - 200

What are the U.S. Courts of Appeal?

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

Goin’ Courtin’ - 300

What is judicial implementation?

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

Goin’ Courtin’ - 400

What is judicial activism?

Goin’ Courtin’ - 500

When there is a pressing need or problem in the society, and

the legislature and the executive fail to address it

Goin’ Courtin’ - 500

When are periods of judicial activism most likely to occur?

Pot Luck - 100

Kind of case in which the state is the plaintiff; kind in which an individual is the plaintiff

Pot Luck - 100

What are criminal and civil cases?

Pot Luck - 200

A test of ideological purity on a particular issue which an

individual must pass before okayed as a Supreme Court

nominee

Pot Luck - 200

What is a “Litmus Test”?

Pot Luck - 300

Constitutional and legislative

Pot Luck - 300

What are the two general types of lower courts Congress has

created?

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

Pot Luck - 400

Who is an adversarial system?

Pot Luck - 500

Judicial parsimony

Pot Luck - 500

What is deciding a case on the narrowest possible grounds

rather than addressing broad constitutional questions

Are you Okay-ed? - 100

President and Senate

Are you Okay-ed? - 100

Nominates and confirms federal judges?

Are you Okay-ed? - 200

1. Political ideology

2. Party and personal loyalties

3. Judicial experience

4. Race and gender

5. The “litmus test”

Are you Okay-ed? - 200

What are current selection criteria for Supreme Court

nominees?

Are you Okay-ed? - 300

Slang for having had your Supreme Court nomination attacked and sunk in the

Senate

Are you Okay-ed? - 300

What is the “borked”?

Are you Okay-ed? - 400

2 George W. Bush nominees currently sitting on the

Supreme Court

Are you Okay-ed? - 400

Who are Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito?

Are you Okay-ed? - 500

Bush’s personal counsel whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the

Senate

Are you Okay-ed? - 500

Who is Harriet Myers?

Anybody’s Guess - 100

8 + 1 = 9

Anybody’s Guess - 100

What is the # of associate justices + the chief justice =

the Supreme Court?

Anybody’s Guess - 200

Term which refers to the fact that we have separate federal

and state courts

Anybody’s Guess - 200

What is dual court system?

Anybody’s Guess - 300

Federal district court judge’s, appellate court judge’s, and

Supreme Court justice’s term

Anybody’s Guess - 300

What is “good behavior”?

Anybody’s Guess - 400

impeachment

Anybody’s Guess - 400

What is the way Congress can put a federal judge out of

office?

Anybody’s Guess - 500

Court of Claims

Court of International Trade

Tax Court

Court of Military Appeals

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)?