Judicial Process Sp 24 Final Review

Which method of judicial selection requires voters to choose between two or more candidates who are not connected to a political party?

• Partisan Election

• Non-Partisan Election

• Merit Selection

• Legislative Election

Both the federal judiciary and some of the state judiciaries use this type of selection method

• Legislative Appointment

• Appointment by Executive

• Merit Selection

• Indirect voter preferences

This selection method is praised because it allows more voices (political & civilian) to be engaged in the selection process; Supporters of it (Justice O'Connor) believed it would increase diversity on state courts, but there is no evidence that it has any impact upon a more diverse judiciary

• Partisan Election

• Non-Partisan Election

• Merit Selection

• Legislative Selection

Some criticize partisan and non-partisan elections because

• judges selected this way tend to write less opinions

• judges selected this way tend to be more lenient with sentencing

• judges must raise funds for campaigning, and it introduces money into the judiciary

• all of these

When judges are appointed solely by a political body...

• their opinions are higher quality, but they typically don't take on as many political cases

• their opinions are lower quality

• the process is apolitical

• they will take on hot button issues in order to flex their power on the other political branches

When judges are free to make decisions based on their sincere application of the facts and law, without control from outside forces, this is the definition of

• legitimacy

• judicial independence

• accountability

• court-curbing

An aspect of the judiciary that leads others to believe it is the appropriate and proper institution to make a certain type of decision.

• legitimacy

• judicial independence

• accountability

• court-curbing

A proposed policy that threatens to restrict, reduce, remove, or otherwise limit the court's power would be

• legitimacy

• judicial independence

• accountability

• court-curbing

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has had numerous cases about redistricting in the state. After years of throwing out maps, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court decided to draw their own map using a computer program where the primary objective was for the computer program to keep communities together in a district. The court announced that this would be the new map until the next census. Tommy Toonson asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the case, because the Wisconsin legislature has the power to decide these issues. What kind of problem is this?

• Judicial independence

• Legitimacy

• Court-Curbing

• Accountability

The decisions in the Warren Court were the most liberal series of decisions of the last 80-100 years. Congress was not always in favor of these decisions, and tried to limit the court's ability to hear cases surrounding public schools, redistricting, among others. This is an example of

• Judicial Independence

• Court-Curbing

• Legitimacy

• Accountability