Trump Criminal Cases
Number of jurisdictions in which former President Trump faced criminal charges prior to the US Supreme Court decision in July 2024
What is four (4)?
The three things the government cannot deprive a person of without "due process of law"
What are life, liberty, and property
The Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive fines and bail and this kind of punishments
What are cruel and unusual?
The two "clauses" in the First Amendment that deal with religion
What are the establishment clause and the free exercise clause?
The kind of searches and seizures the Fourth Amendment prohibits
What are unreasonable searches and seizures?
Number of current or former presidents, other than Trump, who have faced any criminal charges
What is zero?
Constitutional amendments that promise "due process of law"
What are 5th and 14th?
This approach to constitutional analysis has a judge imagine how the authors of the constitution would address a particular legal issue and then decided it as they would have done.
What is origininalism or original intent?
The clause that the "winning" side relied upon in the Kennedy v. Bremerton School District case
What is the free exercise clause?
The first thing that is necessary in order to decide whether the Fourth Amendment applies to a given search
Is the search conducted by a government actor/state actor/law enforcement officer?
General nature/subject matter of the charges from the Southern District of Florida case?
What is unlawful possession of classified and/or top secret documents?
The government interest that is weighed against the individual's choice of how they die
What is protection of life?
The nature of the problem California prisoners were alleging to be cruel and unusual in the Plata case?
What is extreme overcrowding?
Name the type of business in Colorado that the court has held may discriminate against gay couples
What is a bakery?
Other than the person conducting the search, the question the court asks to decide if the 4th Amendment applies
Does the person have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the place searched/thing seized? (or "legitimate expectation of privacy")
Jurisdiction of the case alleging conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding (among other charges) related to January 6, 2021
What is the District of Columbia, or DC Circuit?
Two different forms of "due process"
What are substantive and procedural?
Because the death penalty was regularly applied in 1789
Why is the death penalty not deemed cruel and unusual?
The medical care that Hobby Lobby refuses to pay for its employees on religious grounds
What is birth control?
True or false: the fourth amendment applies to drug testing urinalysis
What is true?
(Just because it applies doesn't mean it is violated)
Number of co-defendants of former President Trump who have already pled guilty in the Georgia election interference case
What is four?
In addition to due process, what constitutional grounds had Roe v. Wade relied upon to guarantee a right to an abortion (no longer applies since Dobbs)
What is privacy?
The reason no prisoner will be executed this year in California
What is a moratorium? (or anything expressing that Governor Newsome has unilaterally ended executions while he is in office)
The clause that would be violated if the California declared Buddhism to be the official state religion
What is the Establishment Clause?
This happens in a criminal case when a court rules that a search violated the Fourth Amendment
What is suppression/exclusion of evidence?