Types Of Courts
The court that hears a case for the first time.
What is Trial Court?
The leader of the Supreme Court
What is Chief Justice?
This power allows courts to rule laws or actions unconstitutional.
What is Judicial review?
The highest court that exercises judicial review in the U.S.
What is the Supreme Court?
This case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The court that reviews lower courts decisions and reviews for mistakes.
What is Appellate Courts?
Supreme Justices are appointed for this long.
What is for Life?
The Judicial Branch checks the Executive Branch by doing this to presidential actions.
What is declaring them unconstitutional?
This is the ability of the courts to interpret the meaning of laws and the Constitution.
What is judicial interpretation?
This case checked the President by ruling that he must follow the law too.
What is United States v. Nixon?
Lower level of federal courts.
What are District Courts?
The branch that nominates Supreme Court Justices
What is Executive Branch?
The Judicial Branch checks Congress by reviewing the laws it passes.
What is ruling them unconstitutional?
A lower court must follow the legal reasoning of a higher court in similar cases because of this.
What is binding precedent?
This case struck down segregation laws passed by states and allowed by Congress.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Court with no jury and 3 judges.
What is Appellate Courts?
The Branch that approves Supreme Court Justices Nomination
Even though the President appoints judges, this is how the Judicial Branch still checks them.
What is life tenure?
This type of judicial power allows courts to enforce individual rights and protections guaranteed by the Constitution.
What is constitutional protection?
This case gave defendants the right to an attorney, checking government power.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The term describes the court's authority to hear the case for the first time.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
What is Writ of Certiorari?
This famous Supreme Court case strengthened the Judicial Branch’s checks on other branches by establishing judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
When a court’s ruling changes how a law is applied nationwide, it is exercising this type of power.
What is national precedent?
This case protected the right to privacy, showing court's power over government limits.
What is Roe v. Wade?