Chief Justices
First female Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor
Clause of the 14th Amendment that prevents discrimination of any citizen
Equal Protection Clause
Tried to prevent the trail of tears
Worcester v Georgia
Number of Seats on the Supreme Court
9
Said black people weren't citizens and had no rights
Dred Scott v Sanford
First African American Justice
Thurgood Marshall
Taking a broad view of the Constitution and allowing it to be a living document open to interpretation.
Judicial Activism
Established Miranda rights in criminal arrests
Miranda v Warren
The primary roll of the Supreme Court
to interpret the law
Allowed Congress to break treaties and seize Native American Land
Lone Wolf v Hitchcock
The Last Federalist and man who defined the roll of Chief Justice
John Marshall
The Amendment from which the right to privacy is inferred.
4th
Ended Segregation in school and eventually the nation
Brown v Board of Edu.
Since the Warren court this has been the tendency of the Court leading to our modern period.
more conservative and restrained
Established Separate but Equal and thus protected Segregation
Plessy v Ferguson
OG Chief Justice
John Jay
A system of law based upon precedence and interpretation rather than a system of codified, rigid statutes.
What is Common Law
Engel v Vitale
The President who got the Job thanks to the Great Bargain of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
Supported Japanese Interment Camps
Korematsu v US
The President who made history, by appointing Taft, a former President to the Supreme Court in 1921
Who is Warren G. Harding
Power used by Congress to justify many laws that have tended to overrule state's rights
Interstate Commerce
upheld the individual mandate of the ACA as part of Congress' power to tax
National Fed. of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius
The proposed law that FDR intended to use to pack the supreme court and force the retirement of intractable Justices
Judicial Reorganization Bill of 1937
One of several cases that allowed for the persecution of communists because the threat of communism outweighed the first amendment's freedom of association
Schenck v US