Know Your Right!
Police usually require this to search your home or belongings.
Search warrant
Under Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court legalized this practice.
Racial segregation
This is the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
This is the opposite of 'necessary' in LSAT jargon
Sufficient
This legal system of racial segregation and discrimination enforced white supremacy in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
Apartheid
The Miranda Warning ensures that those rights prevent self-incrimination during police questioning.
Grants the right to 1) Remain silent, 2) have an attorney, 3) Know that anything said can/will be used against the individual in court, and 4) have an attorney during questioning.
The term is used to describe the process through which the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution.
Judicial review
This is the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
This is why the reasoning is flawed: "Mansour is always early for meetings. Therefore, he must be a good Director of External Affairs for BPLA."
Assume without providing any justification that the only quality for being a good Director of External Affairs for BPLA is to be early for meetings.
This distinguished organization works to eliminate racial discrimination and ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality for people of color in the United States.
The NAACP
You can ask this question if a police officer stops you to determine if you're free to go.
Am I being detained?
This specific term describes the action of the Supreme Court changing a ruling they made previously if it determines that the prior decision was wrongly decided or that times have changed.
To overturn
Known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow," he was a brilliant litigator and law professor who mentored Thurgood Marshall and developed the legal strategies that eventually overturned segregation.
Charles Hamilton Houston
This can be concluded about the relationship between cats and dogs: "If all cats are mammals and no dogs are mammals then ..."
Cats are not dogs / Dogs are not cats.
Established in 1945, this judicial body settles legal disputes between states and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
The International Court of Justice
This legal doctrine allows courts to disregard evidence obtained by the police in violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment rights, even if it proves the individual's guilt.
The Exclusionary Rule
This 2022 case overturned the precedent establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
This is the first African-American to pass a bar exam and practice law in the United States.
Macon Bolling Allen
This explains the flaw in this argument: Studies show that countries with universal healthcare have lower infant mortality rates. So, implementing universal healthcare in the U.S. will produce similar effects.
Ignoring alternative explanations for the lower infant mortality rates / Correlation is not causation
Intentionally targeting hospitals, schools, or religious sites during armed conflict is considered this under international law.
War crime
The development of AI raises concerns about potential violations of this right, particularly in the context of automated decision-making.
Right to privacy
This theory of judicial interpretation says judges should focus on the meaning of the Constitution when it was written and drafted, not how it applies to modern society. Justice Thomas is often associated with this approach.
Originalism
This African-American attorney made history, winning a record $500 million case against a big corporation and taking on giants of the funeral industry.
Willie E. Gary
This is the underlying assumption of this argument: "Organic vegetables are more nutritious because they are grown without harmful pesticides or chemicals."
All non-organic vegetables are grown with harmful chemicals
This is the only country that included abortion as a constitutional right.
France