Judicial Branch Review

The highest court in the land is the US –

• Court of Appeals

• Supreme Court

• District Court

• High Court

The president appoints Supreme Court justices to serve ___ terms.

• 1 year

• 5 year

• 10 year

• lifelong

There are ____ justices are on the Supreme Court.

• 5

• 12

• 9

• 7

The head of the Supreme Court is known as the _____.

• Superior Judge

• Chief Justice

• Chief Courter

• Speaker of the Court

This case established the policy of judicial review

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Tinker vs. Des Moines

• Marbury vs. Madison

• Loving vs. Virginia

____ decides which cases the Supreme Court hears.

• the court itself

• the president

• Congress

• they must hear all cases that are appealed to them

_What is Judicial Review?

• The Supreme Court shaping polices by addressing social and political issues.

• A clause stating that no state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property.

• The Supreme Court avoids taking the initiative on social and political questions.

• The Supreme Court's power to declare laws unconstitutional.

A court’s authority to hear and decide cases is its –

• judicial review

• writ of certiorari

• jurisdiction

• Stare decisis

A ___ is in regard to a noncriminal matter such as a contract dispute or a claim of patent infringement.

• Criminal case

• Certificate

• Civilian tribunal

• Civil case

When a person who lost a case in a lower court asks judges to review that decision and reverse it, they ask the –

• district court

• appellate court

• county court

• trial court