Judicial Decisions: Crash Course Government and Politics #22

Justices are supposed to be...

Justices might be influence by Congress, because they know, unless the case involves the Constitution directly, Congress can respond to a decision overturning a law by passing a new law.

• True

• False

The ____________ (With the help of the Senate) gets the call on who gets to be a Justice.

• President

• Vice President

• Secretary of State

• Other Justices

Justice David Souter is a good example of a Judge appointed by a ___________ who turned out to be much more to the liking of ______________.

• Republican, Democrats

• Democrat, Republicans

Judicial ________ is the idea that the Court should should act as an instrument of policy, making it much more like the other two branches of government.

Judicial activists tend to look beyond the text of the constitution and statutes, instead choose to consider the broader social implications they render.

• True

• False

Judicial ___________ is the idea that Judges should pay close attention to the precedent when they make their decisions and that any changes they make to the law should be incremental.

_________ is the idea that any new law should be interpreted in light of the constitution as it was written in 1787

• Originalism

• Judicial restraint

• Judicial activism

• Constitutionalism

Judicial philosophy is the same thing as political ideology

• True

• False

Justices aren't influenced by any outside factors.

• False

• True