1. JEOPARDY #2 – Ch. 16

2. The Supremes If and WhenGoin’ Courtin’ POT LUCK Are you Okay-ed? Anybody’s Guess! 100 200 300 400 500

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. If and When - 200 What is June?

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

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

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

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

21. 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

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

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

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

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

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

27. 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

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

29. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37. Pot Luck - 300 Constitutional and legislative

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

39. 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

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

41. Pot Luck - 500 Judicial parsimony

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

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

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

45. Are you Okay-ed? - 200 1.Political ideologyPolitical ideology 2.Party and personal loyaltiesParty and personal loyalties 3.Judicial experienceJudicial experience 4.Race and genderRace and gender 5.The “litmus test”The “litmus test”

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

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

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

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

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

51. Are you Okay-ed? - 500 Bush’s personal counsel whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate

52. Are you Okay-ed? - 500 Who is Harriet Myers?

53. Anybody’s Guess - 100 8 + 1 = 9

54. Anybody’s Guess - 100 What is the # of associate justices + the chief justice = the Supreme Court?

55. Anybody’s Guess - 200 Term which refers to the fact that we have separate federal and state courts

56. Anybody’s Guess - 200 What is dual court system?

57. Anybody’s Guess - 300 Federal district court judge’s, appellate court judge’s, and Supreme Court justice’s term

58. Anybody’s Guess - 300 What is “good behavior”?

59. Anybody’s Guess - 400 impeachment

60. Anybody’s Guess - 400 What is the way Congress can put a federal judge out of office?

61. Anybody’s Guess - 500 Court of Claims Court of International Trade Tax Court Court of Military Appeals

62. 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)?