Judicial Basics
This court is the highest in the U.S. judicial system.
What is the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court was established in this year.
What is 1789?
Federal judges serve for this long.
What is for life?
The two other branches of government besides the judicial branch.
What are the legislative and executive branches?
The number of justices on the first Supreme Court.
What is 6?
The total number of U.S. Supreme Court justices.
What is 9?
This branch of government interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
The Supreme Court met in this building before 1935.
What is the U.S. Capitol?
This object, often used by judges, is not actually used in the Supreme Court.
What is a gavel?
The leader of the Supreme Court.
John G. Roberts, Jr