Finals Part 2 Article 3

Question 1

How is the court system layed out?

Answer 1

It is a three tiered system.

Question 2

What is on the lowest level of the three tiered system?

Answer 2

• Lower state courts

- district courts

Question 3

How many district courts are there

Answer 3

94 district courts, plus

• bankruptcy court
• U.S. court of international trade
• U.S. court of federal claims

Question 4

What courts are on the second level of the court system

Answer 4

State supreme courts,
U.S. court of appeals,
Special federal courts

Question 5

How are the appellate courts layed out?

Answer 5

13 Circuit courts consisting of 12 regional and 1 federal courts

Question 6

What is the top tier of the court system

Answer 6

The Supreme Court

Question 7

Do cases ever directly go to the Supreme Court?

Answer 7

Yes, they are cases dealing with manners of original jurisdiction

Question 8

Section one covering Supreme Court

Answer 8

The right to a speedy and fair trial and shows fair and unjust people. Also the power of the inferior courts

Question 9

Section 2 covering Supreme Court

Answer 9

Final say over disputes between states

Question 10

Section 3 covering Supreme Court

Answer 10

Courts deal with treason

Question 11

John Roberts

Answer 11

Chief Justice (conservative )

Question 12

Antonin Scalia

Answer 12

Dead, but he was a strong conservative

Question 13

Clarence Thomas

Answer 13

Strong conservative

Question 14

Stephen Breyer

Answer 14

Liberal

Question 15

Samuel Alito

Answer 15

Conservative

Question 16

Sonya sotomayor

Answer 16

Mexican ( strong liberal )

Question 17

Elena Keegan

Answer 17

Liberal (not a judge)

Question 18

Number of judges in Supreme Court

Answer 18

9 currently one is dead

Question 19

Judicial review

Answer 19

The power of courts to determine the constitutionality of the acts of government

Question 20

Marbury vs Maddison

Answer 20

The Supreme Court is now the final say on the constitutional meaning.

Question 21

Limited government

Answer 21

Aka constitutionalism

The gov must obey the law

Question 22

Checks and balances

Answer 22

-judges appointed by president with federal approval by the senate,
Judges are independent of eachother in choices

Question 23

Procedure 0: writ of centerari

Amicus curiea.

Answer 23

Woc : made more certain

Ac: friends of the court

Question 24

Conference

Answer 24

Behind doors meeting… With tea😏

Question 25

Opiniones

Concurrency and discontinuity

Answer 25

Concurrency ( those who agree)

Discontinuity. (Those who don’t agree)

Question 26

The notorious RBG
Aka Ruth Bater Ginsberg

Aka you can’t spell truth without Ruth

Answer 26

Strong liberal

Question 27

Korematsu v. United States (1944) –

Answer 27

Japanese internment camps

Question 28

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Answer 28

– Separate but equal schools

Question 29

Mapp v. Ohio (1964)

Answer 29

• Unreasonable search and seizures

Question 30

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1955)

Answer 30

Executive order abuses

Question 31

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Answer 31

• Explicit rights of a defendant

Question 32

Morse v. Frederick (2007)

Answer 32

– Free speech of students promoting illicit drug use in the school

Question 33

Island Tree School District v. Pico (1982)

Answer 33

– Library book contents

Question 34

Oswasso Independent School District vs. Falvo (2002)

Answer 34

– Peer grading

Question 35

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Answer 35

Interracial marriage

Question 36

Bush v. Gore (2000)

Answer 36

Presidential election

Question 37

What roles does judicial review play in our governmental system of checks and balances?

Answer 37

The Courts thus have a powerful check on the other branches of the government as they have the ability to stop their actions completely.