Supreme Court

Question 1

John G. Roberts Jr.

Answer 1

Chief Justice -

Question 2

Antonin Scalia

Answer 2

Associate Justice

Question 3

Anthony M. Kennedy

Answer 3

Associate Justice

Question 4

Clarence Thomas

Answer 4

Associate Justice -

Question 5

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Answer 5

Associate Justice

Question 6

Stephen G. Breyer

Answer 6

Associate Justice

Question 7

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr.

Answer 7

Associate Justice

Question 8

Sonia Sotomayor

Answer 8

Associate Justice

Question 9

Elena Kagen

Answer 9

Associate Justice

Question 10

Courts Conservative Wing

Answer 10

the Court’s conservative wing — Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito

Question 11

Courts Liberal Wing

Answer 11

Court’s liberal wing—Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan

Question 12

Certiorari

Answer 12

A word from Law Latin, meaning “to be more fully informed.” If an appellate court has the power to review cases at its discretion, certioari is the formal instrument by which that power gets used. A writ of certiorari orders a lower court to deliver its record in a case so that the higher court may review it. The U.S. Supreme Court uses certiorari to pick most of the cases that it hears

Question 13

Electioneering Communication - Past Cases

Answer 13

Limits on electioneering communications were upheld in McConnell v. Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U.S. 93, 203-209, 124 S.Ct. 619, 157 L.Ed.2d 491 (2003). The holding of McConnell rested to a large extent on an earlier case, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652, 110 S.Ct. 1391, 108 L.Ed.2d 652 (1990). Austin had held that political speech may be banned based on the speaker’s corporate identity.

Question 14

Sui Generis

Answer 14

Sui generis is a Latin phrase, meaning “of its own kind/genus” and hence “unique in its characteristics”