Judicial Branch Review

Term of office for a Supreme Court justice

• elected for a period of 5 years
• nominated for a period of 10 years
• elected for a period of 8 years
• nominated for life (until retirement or death)

Document that describes the judicial branch

• Article I
• Article II
• Article III
• Articles of Confederation

Supreme Court justices are nominated by the _______.

• President
• Speaker of the House
• House of Representatives
• Senate

A court’s authority to hear and decide cases

• judicial review
• writ of certiorari 
• jurisdiction
• stare decisis

The main job of the judicial branch is to?

• a.  interpret the law
• a.  make pop corn
• a.  enforce the law
• a.  provide a jury

What is Judicial Review?

• The Supreme Court shaping polices by addressing social and political issues
• The Supreme Court should avoid taking the initiative on social and political questions
• A clause stating that no state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property.
• The Supreme Court's power to declare laws unconstitutional 

A court opinion signed by at least five of the nine justice of the Supreme Court.

• Dissenting opion
• Concurring opinion
• Majority opinion
• Disconcurring Majority opinion

Which is the lowest federal court?

• Appeals
• State Supreme Court
• Municipal court
• District

This case established the policy of judicial review

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Tinker vs. Des Moines
• Marbury vs. Madison
• McCulloch vs Maryland

This case ended segregation in public schools

• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• New Jersey v. T.L.O.
• Bethel School District v. Fraser