Supreme Court
He has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since 2005
John Roberts
What year did Congress set the number of Supreme Court Justices to 9?
1869
Article I vests all legislative power in this 2/3 chamber body made up of a Senate and House
Congress
Article II requires a president to a be a natural born citizen, a resident of the US for 14 years and at least how old?
35
This Chamber of Congress has the sole power of impeachment
House of Representatives
Along with the Establishment Clause, this first amendment clause protects a person's right to practice their religion.
Free Exercise clause
This Amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people.
10th
Law students call a first year students this term
1L
In 2022, she became the first black women to serve on the Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Article III of the Constitution says federal judges hold their offices during "good behavior, " which in practice means this length of tenure.
Life tenure
Congress' power to regulate trade among the states, with foreign nations, and with Indian Tribes comes from this Article I, Section 8 clause.
Commerce Clause
What Amendment limits the president to two terms?
22nd
After the House impeaches this chamber holds the trial
Senate
In this 1969 case, students wore armbands to protest the Vietnam war - The Court allowed this as their first amendment rights.
Tinker v DeMoines
Article VI makes the Constitution and the Federal laws the supreme law of the land under this clause, which is the basis for federal preemption.
Supremacy Clause
This Latin phrase literally means "the thing speaks for itself," and is used in negligence cases.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
This Justice asks the fewest questions during oral arguments.
Clarence Thomas
In 2022, this case overruled Roe v Wade
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Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization
Ratified in 1913 this amendment changed the selection of the US Senators from election by state legislatures to direct election by the people.
17th Amendment
In February 2026, the Supreme Court ruled that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs
Learning Resources v Trump
Article II lists these grounds for impeachment... Treason, Bribery or other...
High crimes and misdemeanors
Along with speech, press, religion, and assembly the first amendment protects the right to do this.
Right to petition the government
The 1824 case involving rival steamboat operators, read the commerce clause broadly to include navigation.
Gibbons v Ogden
Law students write shorts summaries of court opinions. We do these in this class also.
Case briefs
Who was the only justice to serve on both Columbia Law and Harvard Law Review
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Under this doctrine, the Supreme Court declines to decide disputes that the Constitution commits to the elected branches or that are better left to them.
Political question doctrine
In this 2020 case, the court held that House subpoenas for a sitting president's personal financial records call for a closer separation of powers look and sent the dispute back to the lower courts - case was eventually settled.
Trump v Mazars
In this 1974 case, the court recognized executive privilege but ruled it did not block a criminal subpoena for a certain president's white house tapes
US v Nixon
What is the only remedy for an impeachment conviction?
Removal from office
The first amendment generally disfavors government blocking speech before it happens. This two word term names this block.
Prior restraint
Powers that both the federal government and the states hold, such as taxing and building roads, are called these.
Concurrent powers
The only person in American history to have served both as the President of the US and Chief Justice
William Howard Taft
Before joining the Supreme court, this justice was the dean of Harvard Law School.
Elena Kagan
In the 1962 case, the Supreme Court held that a challenge to Tennessee's legislative districts was not a non justiciable political question, paving the way for one person one vote.
Baker v Carr
in 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall read the Necessary and Proper clause broadly to uphold Congress' creation of a national bank and held that a state could not tax it.
McCullough v Maryland
In this 1997 case, the court held that a sitting president has no immunity from civil litigation over unofficial acts that predate taking office...
Clinton v Jones
This President was impeached but not convicted for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Andrew Johnson
A false statement of fact that harms someone's reputation that is not protected by the 1st Amendment.
Defamation
Unlike Congress, which has only enumerated powers, state governments hold this broad authority to regulate for the health, safety, welfare, and morals of their residents.
police powers
On the top floor of the Supreme Court building sits this sports facility, jokingly nicknamed the highest court in the land.
Basketball court