jeopardy #2 – ch. 16
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JEOPARDY #2 – Ch. 16. 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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)?