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The number of Supreme Court Justices Donald Trump was able to appoint during his 4 years as President.
What is 3?
The building breached by rioters on January 6, 2021.
What is the U.S. Capital Building?
At least 2 of the things that Donald Trump did before he went into Politics.
What are Business, Real Estate, Casinos, Golf Courses, Resorts, Hotels, Miss USA Pageant, and Reality Television?
To be legally responsible, as in a Civil trial.
What is liable?
The 5 freedoms guaranteed by the 1st amendment.
100 points for each freedom named up to 5. If you get one wrong, you lose 100 points.
What are Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly and Petition?
Where MAGA people are on the simple political spectrum and who is the main politician associated with MAGA.
What is on the right and Donald Trump?
Bonus: What does MAGA stand for?
The system used in the United States of America to elect the President.
What is the Electoral College?
For 100 points each:
Name as many things as you can remember that are part of "Due Process"
What are:
The California indictment against OJ Simpson?
What is double murder?
6 total answers, worth 600 points.
The current President AND Vice President of the United States, their political affiliations and their home states (the States they currently represent)
Who are Donald Trump and JD Vance,
Both are Republicans
Trump represents Florida
Vance represents Ohio
Bonus: What are the names of the residences the President and the Vice President live in while in office?
The government body that has the sole power of impeachment.
What is the U.S. House of Representatives?
Bonus: How many votes are needed to impeach in the current house of Representatives?
The country that allegedly, according to the left, colluded with Donald Trump to help get him elected in 2016.
What is Russia?
The issue being protested on January 6, 2021.
What was the results of the 2020 Presidential Election?
2 of the controversial laws or policies that came during the Biden Administration.
What are:
Inflation Reduction Act
Student loan forgiveness
Mandatory covid vaccine for U.S. Military
Border policy
Energy policy (green)
When a defendant accepts lesser charges (typically) to avoid a trial.
What is a Plea Bargain?
The legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.
What is Jurisdiction?
Bonus: What is the initial court appearance, where an accuses person enters a plea of guilty or not guilty, called?
2 of the things that Kamala Harris did in her professional career up to this point.
What are:
District Attorney of San Francisco
Attorney General of California
Vice President of the United States
Who runs Federal Elections?
What are the 50 states?
The burden of proof in a Criminal Trial.
What is "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"?
In the OJ case, what was the Dream Team?
What were OJ's fancy, high priced lawyers?
The Senate majority leader of the United States.
Who is John Thune?
Where impeachment trials are held?
What is the U.S. Senate?
Bonus: How many votes are needed in the Senate to remove a president from office?
The belief in or endorsement of any of various DISCREDITED claims that former U.S. president Barack Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore was not constitutionally eligible to be president of the United States
What is the Birther movement?
The names of the 2 elected groups that work in the U.S. Capital Building.
What are the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate?
Constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
Bonus: Money given to the court by an accused person to ensure they show up for their trial?
a legally binding contract that establishes a confidential relationship between two or more parties, prohibiting the disclosure of secret information
What is a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA)?
The Constitutional Amendment that protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Double Bonus (600 points):
To search or seize, a law enforcement officer must obtain a _________________ from a _____________ based upon evidence of __________________ cause.
Where someone who ascribes to the "Tea Party Movement" is on the simple political spectrum.
What is on the right?
Any state that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or Republican candidate in a statewide election, most often referring to presidential elections,.
What is a Swing State? (Battleground)
Bonus: Name as many swing states as you can from the 2020 and 2024 elections. 100 points for each until you get one wrong, then 0...
The Burden of Proof in a Civil Trial.
What is a "Preponderance of the Evidence"?
The man who led police on a high speed chase in Los Angeles, then was filmed being beaten by police officers after they stopped him and he resisted arrest.
Who is Rodney King?
Bonus: What was the jury verdict of the attempted murder case against the offending officers?
What happened following the verdict?
The Senate minority leader.
Who is Chuck Schumer?
The things outlined in the Constitution for which a person can be impeached.
What are:
Treason
Bribery
High crimes
Misdemeanors
A description of "lawfare"
What is using the criminal justice system to "unfairly prosecute / harass your political opponent?"
The person that Donald Trump was calling on to "stop the certification" of the 2020 election results.
Who was Vice President Mike Pence?
A writ ordering a person to attend a court that is served by a law officer.
What is a subpoena?
A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or some other body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice AND who issues them.
NAME BOTH PARTS
What is a warrant and a judge?
The procedures the government must follow before they may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property
What is Due Process?
Bonus: Name 4 things guaranteed by Due Process in the United States of America?
The father of Communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
Partisan elections held to determine with candidates will be able to participate in the general election.
What are Primary elections?
Overriding idea of the U.S. justice system that lays the burden of proof on the Government / Prosecution.
What is "The Presumption of Innocence"?
Name at least 2 pieces of evidence used in the trial against OJ Simpson.
Another 400 points for more correct answers.
What are:
Domestic Violence
DNA
Knit cap
shoe print
Bloody Gloves
cut on his hand
blood on the Bronco
blood on OJ's driveway
The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Who is Mike Johnson?
The reason Andrew Johnson was impeached.
What is for violating the Tenure of Office Act / replacing Lincoln's Cabinet/.
What is for violating the Tenure of Act / replacing Lincoln's cabinet members?
Bonus: What is the President's Cabinet?
Name at least 2 of the specific indictments / lawsuits against former President Trump.
500 more points for each named after two.
What are:
Bad accounting in hush money incident
Defrauding voters on January 6th
RICO Charges to rig an election
Mishandling Classified Documents
Sexual Assault / defamation
Civil Consumer Fraud, inflating assets
Removed from ballot because of insurrection
The name of the main Protest in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021.
What was the "Stop the Steal" rally / protest?
3 answers needed:) Worth double
The number of Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
How Supreme Court Justices are chosen.
The term length of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
What are:
-9 Justices
-Appointed by President, approved by the Senate.
-Justices serve for life
To purposely and willfully lie under oath, in court or during a deposition.
What is Perjury?
2 issues, that we talked about in class, that are "10th" Amendment issues.
500 points for any extra 10th Amendment issues named.
What are:
Abortion
Immigration
Legalization of Drugs
Where a Progressive is on the Simple Political Spectrum.
What is on the left?
The amendment cited by the State of Colorado as justification for removing Donald Trump's name from the Presidential ballot.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A group of people who hear and evaluate evidence to determine if criminal charges are justified against a person.
What is a Grand Jury?
After being acquitted of first degree murder charges, how did OJ wind up in prison anyway.
What is attempting to "steal" his stuff that he lost in the Civil lawsuit against him?
suspension or discharge of a worker or workers on account of economic conditions or shortage of work, especially when temporary.
What is a furlough?
The reason Bill Clinton was impeached?
What is perjury and obstruction of justice?
His laptop was labeled as "Russian Disinformation" by the liberal media during the 2020 Presidential Campaign.
Who is Hunter Biden?
The name of the woman, a U.S. Veteran who was shot and killed at the U.S. Capital Building on January 6, 2021.
Who is Ashley Babbitt?
Three U.S. Presidents who received Deferments during the Vietnam War.
Who are:
- Bill Clinton
- Donald Trump
- Joe Biden
A jury kept isolated from the public during a trial to prevent outside influences like media coverage or public opinion from affecting their decision-making.
What is sequestered jury?
The burden of proof in a civil court in the United States and how it is different than the burden of proof in a criminal court.
What is a Preponderance of the Evidence?
The burden of proof is much lower in a civil court.
The spouses of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Who are:
Melania Trump
Doug Emhoff
is a legislative process used to pass budget-related bills with a simple majority vote, bypassing the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a potential filibuster. This process is used to adjust spending or revenue and is particularly important in the Senate because it limits debate time and prevents non-budgetary provisions from being included.
What is Reconciliation?
Bonus: Name as many Reconciliation laws as you can for 600 points each?
Sworn, under oath, out-of-court testimony from a witness or party in a trial or lawsuit, taken during the pre-trial discovery phase. It involves attorneys asking questions, and the deponent's answers are recorded by a court reporter for a transcript that can be used in court to gather evidence, preserve testimony, assess credibility, and develop a legal strategy.
What is a Deposition?
The Los Angelino who was beaten by white LAPD officers and the verdict of the attempted murder charges against those officers.
Who was Rodney King?
A Continuing Resolution
What is a temporary funding of the government at the same level as before?
The 2 things for which Donald Trump was impeached.
What are a phone call asking Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden and for inciting a riot at the Capital on January 6th?