Federal Courts
The clause which states that the Supreme Court can review the constitutionality of state laws.
What is the supremacy clause?
The definition of a limited jurisdiction court
What is a court that can only make decisions and hear cases of a specific or particular type.
The qualifications for being a federal judge and how judges are selected.
What is no specific requirements, nomination by the president, and approval from the senate?
The case that established the idea of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The standard of proof for criminal and civil cases.
What is "Beyond a reasonable doubt" and "Preponderance of the evidence"?
The number of Supreme Court Justices.
The court that appeals from the probate, juvenile, and state court go to?
What is the superior court?
The case that eliminated the idea of "separate but equal"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The manner that seniority is decided if two judges take their oath on the same day.
What is the fact that seniority is then determined by age.
The Supreme Court's 5 main procedures.
What is Preparation (briefs), Oral Argument, Conference, Opinions, and Dissent.
All the types of state court that Georgia has.
What is State, Juvenile, Probate, Magistrate, and Municipal?
The number of years a candidate for the Georgia Supreme Court must have practiced law prior.
What is at least seven years?
The case that established the idea that presidents and their actions were subject to the judgements of the supreme court.
What is Hamdi v. Rumsfeld?
The decade in which the idea for an official supreme court building first properly pursued.
What is the 1920s?
The number of federal impeachments.
What is 21 impeachments?
What is 159 courts?
What is William Howard Taft?
The court case that stated that illegally obtained material cannot be used in a criminal trial.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
The president that tried to push the number of Supreme Court justices to 15.
What is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The court which deals with intelligence agency activities?
What is FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)?
The Georgia Supreme Court chief justice and presiding justice.
What is Michael P. Boggs and Nels S. D. Peterson?
The Supreme Court Justice who was on the no longer in circulation 500 dollar bill.
What is John Marshall?
The case that upheld the idea that universities and colleges are allowed to work towards diversifying their student body.
What is Grutter v. Vollinger?
The number of supreme court justices that have been impeached.
What is 0 justices?