Judicial Branch
This is the highest court in the land, comprised of nine justices.
What is the Supreme Court?
The person currently in charge of the Executive Branch of the USA.
Who is Donald Trump?
The number of Senators in the Senate.
What is 100?
This SC decision desegregated schools and other public places.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Donald Trump declared war on this Middle Eastern nation.
What is Iran?
The idea that the Supreme Court and other Federal Judges should not be influenced by the other branches or other outside factors.
What is Judicial Independence?
This is the power of the president to not sign into a law, a bill signed by Congress.
What is a veto?
This SC decision established the "separate but equal" principle that train cars and other public places.
What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
These are two of the current Supreme Court Justices. +$10 for each extra judge over two named
Who is ....?
John Roberts
Neil Gorsuch
Samuel Alito
Clarence Thomas
Amy Coney Barrett
Brett Cavanaugh
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Elena Kagan
Sonia Sotomayor
This is the power that the Supreme Court has to determine the constitutionality of acts of the national and state governments.
What is Judicial Review?
This is the person who casts the tie-breaking vote in the event of a 50-50 vote in the Senate.
A proposed law that is not yet a law, is still just this.
What is a bill?
This SC decision required law enforcement to read out the rights of the person they are arresting in order to use what the arrested person says in court.
What is Miranda v Arizona?
The president has recently made an executive order restricting what type of voting?
What is mail-in voting?
This is the level of federal courts above District Courts but below the Supreme Court.
What is the Court of Appeals?
These are close advisors to the president that lead key executive agencies.
Who are cabinet members?
Congress has the right to confirm or reject these presidential appointees. (only one of 4 answers needed, +$ 25 each for bonus correct answers).
What are district judges, SC justices, cabinet members and heads of federal departments?
This SC decision established the principal of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This is an example of the president taking an action beyond what his/her powers are.
What is Executive Overreach?
This is issued by the Supreme Court if four of the nine justices decide they want to take the case.
What is a Writ of Certiorari?
Name five executive departments (the heads are cabinet members). +$50 for each correct answer over 5.
What is ....?
USDA
Department of Commerce
DoD
DoE
Department of Energy
(D) HHS
DHS
(D) HUD
Department of the Interior
DOJ
Department of Labor
Department of State
DoT
Department of the Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
Congress can impeach these three categories of individuals if they are deemed to be not doing their job well. (name 2 of 5, +$50 for each one over two)
Who are SC justices, judges, president, department heads and cabinet members.
This is the constitutional provision that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, but included one explicit exception: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." (hint: vocab word + Amendment it is a part of)
What is the loophole in the 13th Amendment?
This is the Supreme Court Case allowing states to gerrymander their districts to restrict African-American representation in Congress, especially in Southern States.
What is Louisiana v. Callais?