The Supreme Court
The number of Justices on the current Court.
What is nine?
What are District Courts?
Section of the Constitution that governs the Judiciary.
What is Article III?
Category of law governing voluntary agreements between two or more parties.
What is contract law?
Qualification needed for a party to bring a lawsuit.
What is standing?
The newest member of the Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
What are the appellate or circuit courts
Qualifications listed in the Constitution to become a judge.
What are none?
Standard of proof in a civil case
preponderance of the evidence
These are the two qualifications of timing required to bring a case to court.
What are mootness and ripeness?
The name for the standard used to determine which cases the Court will hear.
Number of districts in the Federal System
What is 94?
Person who holds the most power to define the agenda and privileges of a confirmation process.
Who is the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair?
Category of law also known as "ciivl wrongs" meant to provide compensation for injured parties.
What are torts?
Judicial philosophy wherein a judge tries to rule based on what he or she believes the framers intended when the Constitution was written.
What is originalism?
The commonly used category name for Supreme Court decisions delivered without the public process.
What is the Shadow Docket?
Government body that determines the number of lower courts in the Federal system.
What is Congress?
Interest group that has promoted conservative-leaning justices in recent decades.
Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to a jury in certain federal civil trials.
What is the 7th Amendment?
This judicial philosophy approaches cases from the viewpoint that the Constitution must be interpreted in the context of the current realities.
Living document
The law and year that allowed the Court to select its own cases
The Judiciary Act of 1925
A case may be tried in federal court if it contains a federal legal question or meets this jurisdictional criteria.
What is diversity jurisdiction?
This dramatic phrase was used to describe the elimination of the filibuster for judicial confirmations in the Senate.
What is the "nuclear option"?
This doctrine allows government officials to avoid personal responsibility for professional actions unless they violate “clearly established law."
What is qualified immunity?
This standard is applied when deciding whether the government can restrict a Constitutional right.
What is strict scrutiny?