Can You Hear Me?
This is the authority of a court to hear certain cases.
What is jurisdiction?
This institution must provide confirmation to any federal judge.
What is the Senate?
These agencies create policies that act as laws.
Regulatory Agencies
This is the primary job of the Court when it comes to deciding a case.
What is interpreting the law/Constitution?
Now the basis of most Judicial branch power, this principle is not found in the Constitution, but rather stems from the decision in Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
Federal district courts have this type of ability to hear certain cases.
What is original jurisdiction?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court
What is nine?
The federal bureaucracy is part of this branch.
What is the executive branch?
The Chief Justice will assign the writing of this to one of the judges on the "winning" side of a decision.
What is the majority opinion?
What is independence?
In order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court, it must meet this standard.
What is the Rule of Four?
This allows Supreme Court justices to be politically insulated?
What is a lifetime appointment?
This power gives Congress control over the bureaucracy.
What is the budget or the confirmation of department heads and secretaries?
Congress's primary ability to "check" the Supreme Court is through this ability.
What is amending the Constitution?
This judicial philosophy limits the policy making role of the Court when making its decision.
What is judicial restraint?
Parties who are not satisfied with the decision of a lower court must petition the U.S. Supreme Court to grant this in order hear their case.
What is a writ of certiorari?
To become a Supreme Court Justice, you must pass through this three-step process.
What is nomination, hearing and confirmation?
This power gives the bureaucracy control over Congress.
What is how to enforce laws?
This principle followed by the Court means to "let the decision stand".
What is stare decisis?
According to Federalist 78, the judicial branch does not have these two powers and therefore will be the weakest branch.
What is control of the military and the budget?
The vast majority of cases heard by the Supreme Court come to the Court from here.
What are the Circuit Courts of Appeal?
What is impeachment?
What is an iron triangle?
This protects you from being tried twice for the same crime, if you've already been acquitted once.
What is double jeopardy?
The decision of the court in Brown v. Board to overturn a precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson represents this judicial philosophy
What is judicial activism?