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If and when a person might be tried for a single criminal act twice
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What is if it violates both state and
federal law?
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Wwhen the Supreme Court adjourns its term
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What is June?
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Written if and when a justice agrees with a majority decision but disagrees with
the reasoning behing it
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What is
A CONCURRING OPINION?
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Written f and when a justice disagrees with a majority opinion
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What is a DISSENTING OPINION?
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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
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What is
en banc?
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An actual situation rather than a hypothetical one and one that
may be settled by LEGAL methods
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What is a JUSTICIABLE DISPUTE?
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They review district court decisions, enforce the orders of federal regulatory agencies, but they hear NO testimony
and hold NO trials
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What are the U.S. COURTS OF APPEALS?
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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.
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What is by
JUDICIALIMPLEMENTATION?
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When periods of JUDICIAL ACTIVISM are most likely to occur
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What is when there is a pressing need or problem
in society, and the LEGISLATURE and the
EXECUTIVE fail to address it over time?
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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!
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What is
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM?
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Kind of case in which
1.The state is the plaintiff
2.An individual is the plaintiff
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What are:
1.Criminal cases
2.2. civil cases
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A test of IDEOLOGICAL PURITY on a particular issue which an individual must pass before
okayed as a SCOTUS nominee
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What is
a LITMUS TEST?
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One is CONSTITUTIONAL and the other is LEGISLATIVE
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What are the two types of lower courts which
CONGRESS has created?
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An ADVERSARIAL SYSTEM
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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?
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JUDICIAL PARSIMONY
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What is the practice of deciding a case on the
narrowest possible grounds rather than
addressing broad constitutional
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The President and the Senate
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Who nominates and confirms federal
judges?
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Slang for having your SCOTUS nomination attacked and sunk in the Senate or Senate Judiciary
Committee
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What is
“BORKED”?
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Two of President George W. Bush nominees currently sitting on
the Supreme Court
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Who are
Chief Justice John Roberts
and Associate Justice Samuel Alito?
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8 + 1 = 9
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What is the number of ASSOCIATE JUSTICES and CHIEF JUSTICE on
SCOTUS?
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Term which refers to the fact that we have separate federal
and state court systems
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What is
DUAL COURT SYSTEM?
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Federal district court judge’s, appellate cour judge’s, and
Supreme Court Justice’s term
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What is life or
“GOOD BEHAVIOR”?
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Two justices currently seated on the Court who were nominated
by President Barak Obama
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Who are Justices Sonja Sotomayor and Elaina
Kagan?
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IMPEACHMENT
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What is how CONGRESS removes any federal
judge, including a Supreme Court justice,
from office?
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1.Court of Claims
2.Court of International Trade
3.Tax Court
4.Court of Military Appeals
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What are the legislative
courts?
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They are set up by Congress for special purposes. Judges serve FIXED TERMS an can be removed without IMPEACHMENT.
What are the LEGISLATIVE COURTS
and their JUDGES?
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JEOPARDY: List five key current selection criteria for Supreme Court nominees
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Identify a once popular criterion which is no longer relevant
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JEOPARDY:
1.Political ideology
2.Party and personal loyalties
3.Judicial experience
4.Race and gender
5.The “LITMUS TEST”
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Geography
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