T6, L4: SCOTUS and Landmark Cases

What's the top Justice of the Supreme Court called?

• Chief Justice

• President Justice

• Master Justice

• Principal Justice

How do can someone become a Supreme Court Justice?

• They are born into it

• The people elect them

• The President appoints them

• They win a contest

What is highest court in the land?? 

• a.  U.S. Court of Appeals 
• a.  U.S. Supreme Court 
• a.  U.S. District Court 
• a.  U.S. High Court

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)

Unconstitutional means _____________

• to charge a public official with wrong doing
• the Constitution does NOT allow it
• rejecting a law and refusing to sign it
• to determine the meaning of the Constitution

Number of justices on the Supreme Court

• 5
• 9
• 100
• 435

Name for a Supreme Court judge

• bench
• jury
• judicial review
• justice

The Judiciary Act of 1789 established two types of lower courts; district and ___.

• Criminal

• Circuit

• Civil

• Trial

A trial, or district, court has

• appellate jurisdiction

• original jurisdiction

• concurrent jurisdiction

• federal jurisdicition

Only Trial Courts have a jury

• True

• False