Judicial Branch
Which article of the Constitution establishes the Judicial Branch?
What is Article III?
The length of the federal justice's term.
What is a life term?
The authority of a court to hear a case for the first time.
What is original jurisdiction?
Two court systems
What are state and federal courts?
The Supreme Court's power to look at any local, state, or federal law to see if it is constitutional.
What is judicial review?
Was there a court system during the Articles of Confederation?
What is no?
The number of Supreme Court Justices
What is 9?
The authority of a court to hear a case on appeal from a lower court.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
Two types of cases
What are criminal and civil?
Court Case that establishes judicial review
What is Marbury v Madison?
Which branch of government was given the power to create the inferior courts?
What is Congress?
Who appoints justices and who confirms the nominations?
What are the President and the Senate?
A court that has both original and appellate jurisdiction
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
Both civil and criminal cases are heard in these federal courts, and over 90 percent of federal cases begin at this level
What are district courts?
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 the purpose of the Judicial Branch within our government?
What is to interpret the law?
The way a justice keeps their job.
What is good behavior and not getting impeached?
Has original jurisdiction to hear cases involving foreign diplomats and disputes between two or more states.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
Number of judges on an Appellate Court panel
What is three?
This is the opinion of the minority of Supreme Court justices.
What is a dissenting opinion?
I don't like the decision the court gave me. Where can I go?
What is the Appellant Court?
What are the three ways you can see a change at a Supreme Court Justice seat?
What is retirement, impeachment, or death?
These federal courts have original jurisdiction in most cases.
What are district courts?
District, Circuit/Appellate, and Supreme
What are the Federal Courts?
The primary method to petition the Supreme Court for review of a case.
What is a Writ of Certiorari?