Checks and Balances
These people have a life tenure as to remain unbiased and stay removed from politics.
Supreme Court Justices
This Supreme Court case established Judicial Review.
Marbury V. Madison
These types of cases deals with crimes such as robbery, murder, arson, etc.
Criminal Case
Courts authority to hear and decide cases.
Jurisdiction
this case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. board of education
This power allows the Supreme Court to invalidate laws passed by Congress if they violate the Constitution.
Judicial Review
This spilt the Judicial Power of the U.S. into a Dual Court System.
The Constitution
These types of cases deal with disputes between citizens, such as custody, property, injury etc.
Civil
A statement the judge writes when a court makes a decision
Opinion
This case protected students free speech, two teens wore armbands to protest the Vietnam War to school.
Tinker v. De Moines
These people are appointed by the President and confirmed by the senate to a four year tern as the chief Federal law enforcement officer for a specific district
U.S. Attorneys
This case established the Miranda Warning, a set of rights that police must read to a suspect who is in custody.
Miranda V. Arizona
This jury has original jurisdiction of cases, they determine a verdict.
Trial Jury
A particular geographic area that a court covers; there are 13 in the U.S.
Circuit
This case stated that if someone is accused of a crime and cant pay for a lawyer, they have the right to get one for free.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Congress can withdraw federal judges from office using this process, which first involves the House and then the Senate.
Impeachment
Justices of the Supreme Court decide the cases they will hear because of the "rule of four" also known as this.
Writ of Certiorari
This type of court can either reverse, affirm, or remand a ruling.
Court order requiring someone to appear in court
Subpoena
This case upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Korematsu v. United States
By issuing these formal statements, the president can influence how federal agencies interpret Supreme Court decisions.
executive orders
In these two amendments in the Constitution due process rights are defined.
5th & 14th
This kind of Jury looks at evidence to indite or formally accuse a (group of) person(s).
Grand Jury
Calendar where accepted court cases go
Docket
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This case decided that while race can be considered in college admissions, having strict quotas is not allowed.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke