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What is the Judicial Branch?
How does the Judicial Branch work?
Why was the Judicial Branch created?
What is the current role of the Judicial Branch?
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
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  1. What is the job of the Judicial Branch?

What is to evaluate laws?



100

  1. How long is a judge's term?

How long is until they die or resign or have a conviction by senate



100

  1. What is one reason the judicial branch was created?

What is to unify the country, to serve as checks and balances, or to settle between states

100

  1. Who currently has a majority in the Supreme Court?

What is the Republican Party



100

  1. Which Supreme Court Case decreased restrcitions on abortions?

What is Roe v Wade



200

  1. What is the highest court in the United States?

What is the Supreme Court?



200

  1. About how many cases are accepted every year?

How many is 100



200

  1. In which supreme court case was the power of judicial review established?

What is Marbury V. Madison



200

  1. Who is the most recent Judge on the Supreme Court?

Who is Amy Coney Barrett



200

Which Supreme Court case overturned the ‘separate but equal’ sentiment?

What is Brown v. Board of Education



300

  1. Who appoints Supreme Court justices?

Who is the President?



300

  1. What does the majority opinion of the justices become?

What is the Court's decision



300

  1. When and where was the need for a judicial system first agreed upon?

What is the 1787 Federal Convention



300

Every citizen is entitled to a court trial, where they are innocent until _________.

What is proven guilty?

300

  1. Which Supreme Court case established implied powers of the government?

What is McCulloch v. Maryland



400

  1. Who confirms Supreme Court justices?

What is the Senate?



400

  1. What are appellate courts called?

What are US Courts of Appeals



400

  1. What government provision set up the federal court system?

What is the Judiciary Act of 1789



400

  1. Who is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Who is John Roberts



400

  1. Which Supreme Court case upheld ‘separate but equal’?

What is Plessy v. Ferguson



500

  1. What is the highest court in New Jersey?

What is the New Jersey Supreme Court?



500

  1. What is a written argument for a case called?

What is a brief



500

  1. What is the significance of Fletcher v. Peck decision of 1810?

What is a case in which the Supreme Court struck down a state law as unconstitutional for the first time, expanding its right of judicial review.



500

  1. Has there ever been a major change to the US court system in the last 100 years?

What is no there has not been



500

  1. Which Supreme Court case established judicial review?

What is Marbury v. Madison