THE SUPREME COURT

What is the length of term of office for a judge on the Supreme Court?

• 4 years
• 8 years
• 15 years
• for life

This ruling affirmed the government’s decision regarding the Japanese American Internment during World War II and found that it was not unconstitutional.

• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

• Mapp v. Ohio, 1961

• Marbury v. Madison, 1803

• Korematsu v. United States, 1944

What is an opinion?

• The views of the litigants in a case.
• The decision of the Court.
• The legal reasoning explaining a desicion
• The jury's decision on a case.

This ruling explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Escobedo vs ILL

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• Gregg vs Georgia

This ruling said that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories.

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Furman v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

This ruling held that criminal suspects have a right to

counsel during police interrogations. indigent criminal defendants had a right to be provided counsel at trial.

• Furman v. Georgia, 1972

• Gregg v. Georgia

• Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964 or Gideon v. Wainwright, 1863

This ruling held that the power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

• Gideon v. Wainwright, 1863

• Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824

• Gregg v. Georgia, 1976

• Abington v. Schempp, 1963

There are this many judges on the U.S. Supreme Court

• 5
• 7
• 9
• 11

This ruling held that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures" must be excluded from criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well as federal courts.

• Mapp v. Ohio, 1961

• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

• Marbury v. Madison, 1803

What is the main duty of the Supreme Court?

• Make laws
• Interpret laws
• Enforce laws
• Break laws