Legislative Powers
What power allows Congress to remove a President from office?
What is impeachment?
Who has the power to veto bills passed by Congress?
Who is the President?
What check does the judiciary have on the executive branch?
What is ruling executive actions unconstitutional?
Who can impeach and remove the President?
What is Congress (House impeaches, Senate removes)?
Congress used the War Powers Act to limit military actions by this President in 1973.
What is Richard Nixon?
This chamber holds the impeachment trial.
What is the Senate?
What is the President's role in appointing judges?
What is nominating federal judges?
Who confirms Supreme Court justices?
What is the Senate?
Who confirms cabinet members nominated by the President?
What is the Senate?
In 1998, this President was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate.
What is Bill Clinton?
What can Congress do to override a presidential veto?
What is a two-thirds vote in both chambers?
What executive action can be checked by Congress through war powers?
What is deploying military forces?
What power lets the Supreme Court strike down a law passed by Congress?
What is judicial review?
Who can rule laws passed by Congress unconstitutional?
What is the Supreme Court?
In 2021, this President was impeached was a second time but was again acquitted in the Senate.
What is Donald Trump?
What is one way Congress checks judicial appointments?
What is confirming or rejecting judicial appointments?
What can the President issue that acts like a law but bypasses Congress?
What is an executive order?
What Supreme Court case established the Court's power to check Congress and the President?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Who can override a presidential veto?
What is Congress?
Congress checked executive power in 1973 with this law limiting military force without Congressional approval.
What is War Oowers Resoultion
How does Congress control government spending?
What is the power of the purse?
What power allows the President to forgive someone for a federal crime bypassing the court's decision?
What is the power to grant a pardon?
When the Supreme Court blocks the enforcement of a law that violates the Constitution, what is this an example of?
What is a judicial check on the legislative branch?
Who can declare executive actions unconstitutional?
What is the judiciary (federal courts or Supreme Court)?
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?