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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?
The frequency of Federal Elections.
What is every 2 years?
400 point Bonus: When will the next 2 elections take place and what are these elections called?
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?
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?
President Trump has ordered the U.S. Military to block this important water way.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
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?
The division of powers between different levels of government.
What is Federalism?
Bonus: What are these levels Top to Bottom?
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?
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 White House intern that had an inappropriate relationship with President Bill Clinton that eventually led to his impeachment.
Who is Monica Lewinsky?
Bonus: How did she prove this relationship happened and permanently stain Bill Clinton's reputation?
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?
Elected or appointed government officials in charge of taking people to trial and putting them in jail.
Who are District Attorneys or Attorney Generals?
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.
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 most likely reason that OJ got away with murder.
What was a racist history of the LAPD?
2 answers
The woman who sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment and what group of people said it was OK for her to do so.
Who is Paula Jones and the U.S. Supreme Court?
Bonus: How did the case end?
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 on January 6, 2020.
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?
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
Bill Clinton's main defense strategy at his impeachment trial.
What was an argument based on the "definition of sex"?
The names of all three U.S. Presidents that have been impeached.
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump?
What is for violating the Tenure of Act / replacing Lincoln's cabinet members?
Bonus: What is the President's Cabinet?
His laptop was labeled as "Russian Disinformation" by the liberal media during the 2020 Presidential Campaign.
Who is Hunter Biden?
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
Education
Elections
The amendment cited by the State of Colorado as justification for removing Donald Trump's name from the Presidential ballot.
What is the Insurrection clause of 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?
The reason given by a Special U.S. Prosecutor as to why Joe Biden was not prosecuted for illegally retaining classified documents.
What is Joe Biden is "a well meaning elderly gentleman with a bad memory"?
Not mentally fit enough...
The charges for which Bill Clinton was impeached?
What are perjury and obstruction of justice?
Name at least 3 of the specific indictments / lawsuits against former President Trump. (Criminal or Civil)
600 more points for each named after three.
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 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.
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 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 were the officers subsequently charged with?
Double Bonus:
When a jury fails to reach a verdict.
What is a "hung Jury"?
Bonus: A legal ruling that terminates a trial before a verdict due to significant errors, misconduct, or a hung jury, rendering the proceedings void?
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 U.S. Capital on January 6th?