Congress
435
What is the # of members in the House?
What is SCOTUS?
Gideon v. Wainwright
What is the 6th Amend, Right to Attorney/Lawyer/Counsel?
All 5 of these are in the 1st Amendment.
What are freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
Overturned 1896 case that legalized segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
They reconcile similar bills passed by the House and Senate.
What is a Conference Committee?
This is the number of justices needed for SCOTUS to hear a case.
What is 4?
Brown v. Board of Education
What is the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection Clause)?
This protects you from government forcing religion on you.
The Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment
Law that opened voting rights to African-Americans living in the South.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Vote needed to override a President's veto.
What is 2/3rds in each chamber?
They are given the power to fund the Courts and alter the size of the federal judiciary.
What is Congress?
Tinker v. Des Moines
What is the 1st Amendment (free speech)?
The exclusionary rule (Mapp v. Ohio) established this.
What is all evidence illegally obtained would be inadmissible in Court.
Law aimed at preventing gender discrimination in education and school sports.
What is Title IX (9)?
Mitch McConnell is currently in this leadership role.
What is the Senate Majority Leader?
An argument made by a "friend of the court" submitted to SCOTUS by a non-party in a case.
What is an Amicus Curiae brief?
McDonald v. Chicago
What is the 2nd Amendment (bear arms)?
These are 2 forms of non-protected speech.
What is obscenity, incitement/fighting words, libel, slander, & false advertising?
The ruling in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US established this law would end Jim Crow discrimination in places of business.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This is the committee in which all revenue bills must begin.
What is the House Ways and Means Committee?
The 3 core beliefs of Judicial Conservatives.
What are Judicial Restraint, Originalism, and Strict Constructionism?
United States v. Lopez
What is the Interstate Commerce Clause?
Two first amendment cases that seem to have somewhat contradictory rulings based on free speech/press in a time of war.
What are Schenck v. US and NYT v. US?
The thesis of Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
What is nonviolent civil disobedience is required end the injustices of segregation? Waiting/Patience is immoral and breaking unjust laws is moral.