Part of Constitution that covers the Judicial branch
What is Article III?
100
Federal courts specifically created by the U.S. Constitution or by Congress pursuant to its authority in Article III
What are Congressional courts?
100
Current Chief Justice
Who is John Roberts?
100
They say the courts should defer policy making to other branches of government as much as possible
Who are restraintists?
100
Presidents generally defer selection of district court judges to the choice of senators of their own party who represent the state where the vacancy occurs
What is senatorial courtesy?
200
First Supreme Court Chief Justice
Who is John Jay?
200
Courts established by Congress for specialized purposes, such as the Court of Military Appeals
What are Legislative courts?
200
Number of all Supreme Court justices to ever hold that position
What is 113?
200
Judicial decision making that argues judges should use their power broadly to further justice
What is judicial activism?
200
When the Senate calls upon nominees to testify and asks probing questions
What are Senate Committee hearings?
300
The year that nine Supreme Court justices became a standard
What is 1869?
300
A document containing the legal written arguments in a case filed with a court by a party prior to a hearing or trial
What is a brief?
300
Number of clerks each justice gets
What is 4?
300
Links judicial attitudes with decision making
What is the attitudinal approach?
300
More and more of these get involved in district court and court of appeals nominations
What are interest groups?
400
Judiciary Act of ____ gives form and substance to the federal judiciary
What is 1789?
400
A prior judicial decision that serves as a rule for settling subsequent cases of a similar nature
What is a precedent?
400
Most recently appointed Supreme Court Justice
Who is Neil Gorsuch?
400
Suggests that justices are prospective thinkers who act to achieve and preserve their policy and personal goals over the long term
What is the strategic model?
400
Many of those appointed to the Supreme Court have been personal friends of the presidents
What is rewards?
500
The year that judicial review was established (M v. M)
What is 1803?
500
In court rulings, a reliance on past decisions or precedents to formulate decisions in new cases
What is stare decisis?
500
Longest current serving Supreme Court justice
Who is Anthony Kennedy?
500
Justices read legal briefs, hear oral arguments, read the newspaper, and watch television so as to be aware of
What is public opinion?
500
"You have to be lucky" to be appointed to the Court once remarked