The Legislative
This senate tactic involves delaying a vote on legislation by maintaining control of "the floor" for as long as possible
What is a filibuster?
The process of drawing congressional districts to favor one party over another
What is Gerrymandering?
This demographic group swung an enormous 13% towards Donald Trump in the 2024 election compared to 2020, a shift of 32% to 45%.
What are Hispanic voters?
Power over this fast-paced global field of policymaking is usually given to the Executive Branch due to its response time and resources
What is foreign policy?
This judicial power involves striking down state and federal laws after declaring them "unconstitutional"
What is judicial review?
This money and markets sentence in Article I of the Constitution is among the most powerful of the constitutional clauses
What is the Commerce Clause?
Each state possesses one of these for every 600,000 residents
What is a House Representative?
This group of voters were the only group to swing (by 2%) towards Harris in 2024 compared to Biden's 2020 performance.
What are White voters?
These technically-not-law documents act as ways for Presidents to create policy quickly without Congressional approval
What are Executive Orders?
This infamous Supreme Court case led to the desegregation of schools in the United States
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This check on the Judicial and Executive Branch involves an investigation and trial involving both houses of Congress
What is impeachment?
The founders' compromise when deciding how to elect the President
What is the Electoral College?
This yellowy third party pulls many small government and freedom loving voters from the Republican party every election cycle
What is the Libertarian party?
This check on the Legislative Branch involves a President refusing to sign a bill sent to their desk
What is a veto?
These are the three possible ways that a Supreme Court justice can stop being a Supreme Court justice
What is death, impeachment, or resignation?
This legislative body approves Presidential appointments to government departments and federal courts
What is the Senate?
This election acts as a selection process for each party leading up to a general election
What is a primary election?
Education level, age, whether or not you live in a swing state, income, etc. are among these factors affecting this often-forgotten aspect of an election
What is voter turnout?
This government tie-breaker acts primarily as the President of the Senate, but is often given other minor assignments by the president
Who is the Vice President?
This official term prevents, for example, the deportation of a non-citizen through an order of the court
What is an injunction?
This Delaware Senator served in the Senate with both segregationist Strom Thurmond and first South Asian Senator Kamala Harris during his 36 years in the U.S. Senate
Who is Joe Biden?
The 22nd Amendment was created to limit Presidential terms to 2 after this President's 12-year stint in office
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
This east coast state swung the most out of any in the country towards Donald Trump in 2024, from 37.74% to 43.31%
What is New York state?
This President famously had to give up his Georgia peanut farm before taking office in 1976
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This Supreme Court Justice was a Black Power marcher in the Civil Rights Era before he became a strong traditional conservative
Who is Clarence Thomas?