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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

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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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