The Federal Judicial Power
The limits on federal judicial power are derived from this place in the Constitution
What is Article III?
Under the Commerce Clause, Congress has the authority to regulate the following within interstate commerce
What are channels, instrumentalities, and things that substantially effect interstate commerce?
States derive their power from this place?
What is the 10th Amendment?
The president derives his power from this place in the Constitution
What is Article II?
She was the most recent US Supreme Court justice appointed to the Court
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson ?
Marbury v Madison stands for this important concept
What is judicial review of executive and legislative acts?
These are the three types of implied preemption
What are conflicts, impediment, and field preemption?
These are the traditional police powers held by the states
What are health, welfare, safety, and morals?
The president has the power to pardon these people
Who are people accused and convicted of federal crimes?
She was the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
These are the three requirements of constitutional standing
What are injury, causation, and redressability?
The Privileges and Immunities Clause does not apply to the these two groups
What are corporations and citizens of other countries?
The 10th Amendment says this about states' power
What is that all powers not granted to the federal government are reserved for the states?
These are the three categories from the Youngstown case that are used to analyze the scope of the president's power as they relate to acts of Congress
What are the zone of twilight, the lowest ebb, and the maximum power?
These are the US presidents that have been impeached by Congress during the country's history
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump?
Congress can overrule standing requirements by statute because they are derived from the Court's view of prudent judicial administration under this concept
What is prudential standing?
Congress has the power to tax if one of these two requirements are met
What is that the tax must be rationally related to raising revenue or Congress must have the power to regulate the activity being taxed?
The anti-commandeering principle stands for this concept
What is that Congress cannot force states to adopt or enforce programs or laws?
This is the process by which impeachment of a president happens
What is the House of Representatives initiates impeachment by a majority vote and then the Senate conducts impeachment trials and convictions by 2/3 vote?
This president appointed more justices (9) to the US Supreme Court than any other president in the 20th century
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt? (These are the justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, James F. Byrnes, Harlan F. Stone, Robert H. Jackson, Wiley Blount Rutledge)
The Flast Exception stands for this concept
What is an exception to the prohibition on general taxpayer grievances?
The Dormant Commerce Clause is best explained this way (provide the general rule statement)
What is state and local laws are unconstitutional if they place an undue burden on interstate commerce unless it's necessary to achieve an important state interest.
Congress can restrict these types of state activities
What are activities that violate civil liberties?
Overriding a presidential veto requires this
What is a 2/3 majority of both the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This justice wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, drawing from his experience working at the Mayo Clinic
Who is Justice Blackmun?