Judicial Branch AP Matching

11. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of "checks" on the Judicial Branch?

A. Senate must approve judicial nominees A. President nominates federal judges

3. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of judicial activism and judicial restraint?

A. Supreme Court overturns stare decisis A. Supreme Court upholds precedent

15. Why is Marbury v. Madison significant?

A. it established the power of judicial review, affirming that the Supreme Court is coequal with other branches.

6. The Constitution is "not a living document," Justice Scalia told the Southern Methodist University crowd in 2014. "It's dead, dead, dead....The judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge." This quote supports which philosophy?

A. judicial restraint

8. A Supreme Court Justice who writes the following words,"Generations from now, lawyers and judges will look back at today's ruling with utter contempt," is probably writing a

B. majority opinion

9. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of federal process versus most states.

C. Judges are intentionally independent C. Judges are elected, very political process

5. Which of the following methods is the most certain way to override a Supreme Court decision?

C. Proposing and ratifying a constitutional amendment that counters the decision.

13. Appointments to the federal judiciary are often contentious (controversial) for which of the following reasons?

C. The President selects nominees based on litmus test, the Senate more on academics merit.

14. Which of the following is an example of judicial review by the Supreme Court?

C. overturning a president's executive order on immigration because it violates the Constitution.

12. Critics of judicial activism would favor a Supreme Court that would:

C. rule based on a strict interpretation of the Constitution

7. "There never can be danger that the judges, by a series of deliberate usurpations on the authority of the legislature, would hazard the united resentment of the body intrusted with it, while this body was possessed of the means of punishing their presumption, by degrading them from their stations." --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 81 Which of the following statements summarizes the argument made in Federalist #81?

D. Congress may check the Supreme Court through impeachment.

2. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of judicial activism and judicial restraint?

D. Is practiced when courts overrule D. Is exercised when courts refrain from inter- Legislative acts or shape policy. fering with legislative decisions.

1. Which of the following statements best explains how stare decisis influences Supreme Court Justices?

D. It makes justices more likely to defer to previous Supreme Court decisions.

10. Select the most accurate comparison between the most liberal Supreme Court justice and the most conservative Supreme Court:

D. Ours is a living, breathing Constitution D. Protect the original intent of the Founders

4. A U.S. District judge in Alabama has a dispute in his court in which an employee is suing her employer over improper termination. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court of Kansas have both ruled on highly similar cases under the same law and sided with the employee. Which of the following is the likely action this federal judge will take?

D. The judge will refuse to hear the case because the federal courts have no jurisdiction here.