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JEOPARDY #2 – Ch. 16

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.

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JEOPARDY #2 – Ch. 16

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  1. JEOPARDY#2 – Ch. 16

  2. The Supremes - 100 Y, they are the only xx’s on the Court!

  3. The Supremes - 100 Who are Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

  4. The Supremes - 200 Supreme who won the “race” for a seat and his replacement

  5. The Supremes - 200 Who are Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas?

  6. The Supremes - 300 Since 1917, it’s been the beginning of their term

  7. The Supremes - 300 What is the 1st Monday in October?

  8. The Supremes - 400 Nickname for the Supreme Court building

  9. The Supremes - 400 What is the Marble Temple?

  10. The Supremes - 500 Current Chief Justice and Chief whom he replaced

  11. The Supremes - 500 Who are Roberts and Rehnquist?

  12. If and When - 100 If and when a person might be tried for a single criminal act twice

  13. If and When - 100 What is if and when it violates both state and federal law?

  14. If and When - 200 When the Supreme Court adjourns its term

  15. If and When - 200 What is June?

  16. If and When - 300 Written if and when a justice agrees with a majority decision but disagrees with the reasoning behind it

  17. If and When - 300 What is a concurring opinion?

  18. If and When - 400 Written if and when a justice disagrees with a majority opinion

  19. If and When - 400 What is a dissenting opinion?

  20. 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

  21. If and When - 500 What is en banc?

  22. Goin’ Courtin’ - 100 An actual situation rather than a hypothetical one and one that may be settled by legal methods

  23. Goin’ Courtin’ - 100 What is a justiciable dispute?

  24. Goin’ Courtin’ - 200 They review district court decisions, enforce the orders of federal regulatory agencies, but thy hear no testimony and hold no trials

  25. Goin’ Courtin’ - 200 What are the U.S. Courts of Appeal?

  26. 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

  27. Goin’ Courtin’ - 300 What is judicial implementation?

  28. 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

  29. Goin’ Courtin’ - 400 What is judicial activism?

  30. Goin’ Courtin’ - 500 When there is a pressing need or problem in the society, and the legislature and the executive fail to address it

  31. Goin’ Courtin’ - 500 When are periods of judicial activism most likely to occur?

  32. Pot Luck - 100 Kind of case in which the state is the plaintiff; kind in which an individual is the plaintiff

  33. Pot Luck - 100 What are criminal and civil cases?

  34. Pot Luck - 200 A test of ideological purity on a particular issue which an individual must pass before okayed as a Supreme Court nominee

  35. Pot Luck - 200 What is a “Litmus Test”?

  36. Pot Luck - 300 Constitutional and legislative

  37. Pot Luck - 300 What are the two general types of lower courts Congress has created?

  38. 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

  39. Pot Luck - 400 Who is an adversarial system?

  40. Pot Luck - 500 Judicial parsimony

  41. Pot Luck - 500 What is deciding a case on the narrowest possible grounds rather than addressing broad constitutional questions

  42. Are you Okay-ed? - 100 President and Senate

  43. Are you Okay-ed? - 100 Nominates and confirms federal judges?

  44. Are you Okay-ed? - 200 • Political ideology • Party and personal loyalties • Judicial experience • Race and gender • The “litmus test”

  45. Are you Okay-ed? - 200 What are current selection criteria for Supreme Court nominees?

  46. Are you Okay-ed? - 300 Slang for having had your Supreme Court nomination attacked and sunk in the Senate

  47. Are you Okay-ed? - 300 What is the “borked”?

  48. Are you Okay-ed? - 400 2 George W. Bush nominees currently sitting on the Supreme Court

  49. Are you Okay-ed? - 400 Who are Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito?

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