Know Your Right!
The U.S.
Supreme Court
Key Black
Lawyers & Judges
LSAT
Legal
Potpourri
100

Police usually require this to search your home or belongings.

Search warrant

100

Under Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court legalized this practice. 

Racial segregation

100

This is the first African American to serve on the  Supreme Court.  

Thurgood Marshall

100

This is the opposite of 'necessary' in LSAT jargon

Sufficient

100

This legal system of racial segregation and discrimination enforced white supremacy in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

Apartheid 

200

The Miranda Warning ensures that those rights prevent self-incrimination during police questioning.

Grants the right to 1) Remain silent,   2) have an attorney, 3) Know that anything said can/will be used against the individual in court, and 4) have an attorney during questioning.

200

The term is used to describe the process through which the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution. 

Judicial review 

200

This is the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Ketanji Brown Jackson

200

This is why the reasoning is flawed: "Mansour is always early for meetings. Therefore, he must be a good Director of External Affairs for BPLA."

Assume without providing any justification that the only quality for being a good Director of External Affairs for BPLA is to be early for meetings.

200

This distinguished organization works to eliminate racial discrimination and ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality for people of color in the United States.

The NAACP

300

You can ask this question if a police officer stops you to determine if you're free to go.

Am I being detained?

300

This specific term describes the action of the Supreme Court changing a ruling they made previously if it determines that the prior decision was wrongly decided or that times have changed.

To overturn

300

Known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow," he was a brilliant litigator and law professor who mentored Thurgood Marshall and developed the legal strategies that eventually overturned segregation.

Charles Hamilton Houston

300

This can be concluded about the relationship between cats and dogs: "If all cats are mammals and no dogs are mammals then ..."

Cats are not dogs / Dogs are not cats.

300

Established in 1945, this judicial body settles legal disputes between states and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.

The International Court of Justice 

400

This legal doctrine allows courts to disregard evidence obtained by the police in violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment rights, even if it proves the individual's guilt.

The Exclusionary Rule

400

This 2022 case overturned the precedent establishing a constitutional right to abortion.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

400

This is the first African-American to pass a bar exam and practice law in the United States.

Macon Bolling Allen

400

This explains the flaw in this argument: Studies show that countries with universal healthcare have lower infant mortality rates. So, implementing universal healthcare in the U.S. will produce similar effects.

Ignoring alternative explanations for the lower infant mortality rates / Correlation is not causation

400

Intentionally targeting hospitals, schools, or religious sites during armed conflict is considered this under international law.

War crime

500

The development of AI raises concerns about potential violations of this right, particularly in the context of automated decision-making.

Right to privacy

500

This theory of judicial interpretation says judges should focus on the meaning of the Constitution when it was written and drafted, not how it applies to modern society. Justice Thomas is often associated with this approach.

Originalism

500

This African-American attorney made history, winning a record $500 million case against a big corporation and taking on giants of the funeral industry. 

Willie E. Gary

500

This is the underlying assumption of this argument: "Organic vegetables are more nutritious because they are grown without harmful pesticides or chemicals."

All non-organic vegetables are grown with harmful chemicals

500

This is the only country that included abortion as a constitutional right. 

France 

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