"Firsts"
First African American to serve on the Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The 1803 Supreme Court case that established the courts' power of judicial review and the first time the Supreme Court ruled an act of Congress to be unconstitutional
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Number of justices on the Virginia Supreme Court
What is seven?
Article in the U.S. Constitution that describes the judicial branch
Main job of the judicial branch
What is to interpret the law?
First Woman to serve on the Supreme Court
Who was Sandra Day O'Connor?
Overturned prior decision to rule that segregation in public schools was UNconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Term in office for the Virginia Supreme Court
What is 12 years?
Number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court
What is 9?
Power of the Court to declare laws unconstitutional
What is judicial review?
First Latina to serve on the Supreme Court
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
Determined that the police had to read you your rights upon arrest.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Issues warrants, administer oaths, decides bail and issues subpeonas for the State of Virginia
Who are magistrates?
Number of votes necessary for a case to be granted a writ of certiorari (i.e., Rule of ___)
What is four?
A written legal argument presented to a court by one of the parties
What is a brief?
First African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Concluded that the government must provide you an attorney if you cannot afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Number of judicial circuits in Virginia
What is 31?
Number of tiers in the Federal judiciary
What is three?
Type of jurisdiction most often exercised by the Supreme Court
What is appellate?
First Jewish member of the U.S. Supreme Court
Who was Louis Brandeis?
What is Baker v. Carr?
Number of Judicial Districts in Virginia
What is 32?
Minimum number of votes represented in a Majority opinion
What is five?
Has the power to create lower/inferior courts in the Federal judicial system.
Who is Congress?